The Spanish U-17 Championship, in Palos de la Frontera, is the highlight of the badminton “menu” this weekend with a performance of four players from Huesca. The first seed is Raúl Bergua (Ravachol) and the fourth seed is Gonzalo Isábal (Huesca La Magia), the latter accompanied by his coach, Roberto Mollinedo, who also takes the reins of another club player in the Andrea Mingarro women’s tournament. . Completing the Alto Aragonese quartet is Emma Bibián, from VV Osca.
Raúl Bergua is only going to play the individual competition. He does it after a “truce” of a few weeks without competition and leaves as main favorite being first seeded. “There is a lot of rivalry and anyone can win. If I play at the level that I am showing, I can opt to be on top. Whoever knows how to handle pressure conditions better, the nerves and all those attitudes that occur in these championships, he will take it. Personally, I have very good feelings training and I’m going for it,” says the player who plays for Ravachol, whose first obstacle will be the Asturian Yago García.
Roberto Mollinedo is in charge of the double participation of Huesca La Magia with Gonzalo Isábal and Andrea Mingarro. Isábal has an intense competition ahead of him with three fronts to attend to since he is going to play, in addition to the singles (fourth favorite), the men’s doubles (partnering with the Ibizan Alex Tur) and the mixed doubles (with the also Ibizan Sofría García as couple).
Gonzalo’s coach fully trusts in his pupil’s possibilities. “He arrives in very good shape and is going to look for the three finals. We know that the calendar is demanding and that you will fight to advance as much as you can in the three modalities. It is a very even and balanced championship and it is essential to know how to control emotions,” says Roberto Mollinedo.
In the individual draw their first rival will be the Chinese from CB Alicante Jiaxi Zuo, in men’s doubles they will face Ian Antón-Miguel Pérez and in mixed doubles Carlos Dueñas-Paula Yedra.
The Huesca La Magia coach alsorefers to Andrea Mingarro in the hope that “she can perform according to her level” and considers it very important “to see how he faces the feelings regarding the demands of the championship.”
Mingarro, exempt in the first round in singles, is paired in women’s doubles with Madrid’s Victoria Burgos (Ciudad de Villalba) and to start they will have Lucía Barbero-Lucía Marqueño as opponents.
On the part of the VV Osca, Emma Bibián has qualified to play in both singles and doubles, along with his regular partner Ana Ruiz from CB Daroca. As this is a knockout tournament, its objective is to “Go through rounds and try to get as far as possible, being aware that they are going to face rivals with a lot of potential and whose federations and clubs have many more resources than ours. There is a lot of enthusiasm among the members of the club, who hope that their young player performs well this year in this tournament since she arrives in great shape,” says her father and coach. Carlos Bibian.
HUESCA AND BINÉFAR IN THE LÉRIDA TOURNAMENT
The rest of the “platoon” of the Huesca La Magia and CB Binéfar come with a wide representation to the TTR N7 Tournament in Lérida which will be played this Saturday.
On behalf of Huesca La Magia, in Sub 11, Izarbe Ara seeks to prepare for the Spanish Championship and will fight for victory. In U-13, Lorenzo Dieste also fine-tuning Nacional’s set-up with the aim of doing a good job. I will also do the doubles with Darío Marín (Teruel). Martín Coronas, in a category higher than his, also participates with the aim of performing at a good level and will do the mixed race with Lucía Al Saifi, from Alfajarín. Andrés Oliva comes with his sights set on the Nacional and will play with his partner Luna Guerri in the mixed doubles. The latter has the opportunity to gain experience in competitions outside the Community.
In the Under-15 category, The tournament marks Pablo Ara’s return to competition after a hand injury. He will play singles and doubles with Daniel Coronas. The latter will also look for a good result in singles. Daniel Paúl plays singles and mixed doubles with Noa Bernués, both wanting a good role on both fronts. María Casales will also fight for a good individual position and will play doubles with Emma Nievedes. And Fernando Mur will play in doubles with Xabi Gracia, from Alfajarín.
In absolute category, Cristina Roig faces the tournament with the objective of winning in singles and will be paired in mixed with her partner Carlos Varea.
In senior category, Javier Coronas will fight for the individual title and will play doubles with Eduardo Marco (Binéfar). Carlos Varea will fight for a good result and will play in doubles with his partner Alberto Rodríguez, who in turn will fight to win the title in C1.
It also expands the roster of players of the Binéfar Badminton Club. In Sub-15 Jorge Foj, Hugo Arias, Nerea Marco and Miguel Nieto are going to the championship. In U-17, Luke Montius In U-19, Hugo Montiu and Jara Marco. In VeteransJorge Sampietro, Raúl Capdevila, Belén Foj and Eduardo Marco.
