Huesca La Magia Badminton players Alejandro Gállego, Alejandro Yagües, Raúl Bergua and Gonzalo Isábal play this weekend Andalusian Benalmádena Spanish Open, an international tournament that brings together players from many European countries.
It is a great sporting event for the group that is the spearhead of the Huesca youth academy. Alejandro Gallego and Alejandro Yagues participate in the category sub-17 Y Raúl Bergua and Gonzalo Isábal in the sub-15.
The under-17 tournament has 174 players, of which only 61 are Spanish. Huesca come summoned by the Spanish Federation. Many requests to participate were left out of the demanding pre-selection.
There are players from Germany (28), France (23), England (12) and to a lesser extent from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland and Wales. Total, there are eighteen countries represented.
Gallego and Yagües, players who have recently debuted the category, they will participate in the doubles draw and in the mixed doubles draw, because they have not been able to enter the individual.
The men’s doubles is a direct final frame with 32 couples. The Huesca’s first rivals will be the French Ethan Bissay and Nicolas Fouquet.
in mixed, the people from Huesca play with couples from other clubs in a table of 64. Gállego and Rocío Martín will play in the first round with the English Aarya Ramachandra and the Irish Michelle Schochan. And Yagües plays with Macarena Fernández against the French couple formed by Dinesh Carnot and Maud Lefort. In case of passing the oscenses they would play with pairs that start as seeded and that they are exempt from the first round.
The under-15 competition has less international participation and a higher percentage of Spaniards, that, in addition, start as the main heads of series of the paintings.
Players from thirty Spanish clubs attend and volantistas coming from Belgium (7), Russia (6), English, Bulgarian, German, Polish, Portuguese, as well as of Israeli or Estonian origin.
Raul Bergua and Gonzalo Isábal depart as contenders for victory in the singles and doubles draws. Bergua starts as the second seeded individual and Gonzalo Isábal, as third. The first favorite is the Balearic player Yaidel Gil.
The competition starts with leagues by groups of three, of which one passes to a final frame of 16 players.
and in doubles Bergua and Isábal start as first seeded. It also starts in groups and then goes to a table of eight pairs.
People from Huesca also participate in the mixed competition. Bergua does it with Iziar Barcala and start as numbers 6. E Isábal plays with Ana Agua and they are not seeded.
Social League
Badminton Huesca organizes a day of Social League this Saturday on its slopes. This open to players of different ages and levels and also serves as training for upcoming competitive appointments and also as a playful way to complement training.
