Another intense day of matches on the slopes of El Cortijo Club de Campo, where two tournaments of the TDC Series circuit take place in parallel. The ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors J60 Telde already knows its semifinalists, while the Gran Canaria Women’s PRO I-W15 Telde reaches the quarterfinals.
As for the junior category event, Saúl Pacheco from the Canary Islands earned his ticket for the penultimate round after defeating Swiss Oscar Baumgartner 6-4, 6-2 in the quarterfinals, becoming thus in the only survivor of the island armada in singles.
Some semis with a Spanish flavor. number one in the boxthe Mallorcan Bryan Hernández Cortés, beat Keoni Puig from Alicante 6-4 and 6-2. In the other two quarterfinal matches, the victories fell to Izan Almazán Valiente and Luis Llorens Saracho.
In the doubles draw, the Canaries Noah Lopez and Kenay Ortiz slipped into the semifinals after beating the couple formed by the Spanish Bryan Hernández and the Chinese Matías Link 6-3, 6-7 (2) and 10-5. With less luck ran the canary Roberto Pérez Socas. Together with the Russian Alexander Ilin they lost against the duo made up of Cowen Lau (Indonesia) and Weltao Xu (China) by 3-6 and 4-6.
Without Canarian representatives in the women’s draw of this junior tournament, which also reaches the semifinals. The Latvian Marina Markina, one of the favorites, beat the Spanish Ana Martínez in three sets: 6-1, 2-6 and 6-3. In addition, they advanced to the penultimate round the Belgian Ema Kovacevic, the Slovakian Katarina Pavlechova and the Ukrainian Allesia Reva.
In the women’s doubles draw, the only representative from the Canary Islands, Noah Rojas, and her partner, the Slovakian Vivienne Poticna, lost to the duo made up of the Spanish Marina Gatell and the Latvian Marina Markina 6-0, 6-2.
Regarding the Gran Canaria Women’s TDC Series PRO I-W15 Telde tournament, it reaches the quarterfinal round. She is accessed by the number one favorite, Ángela Fita Boluda, who got rid of the Italian Alessandra Mazzola. The also Spanish Claudia Hoste Ferrer won in singles and doubles, reaching the quarterfinals.
She was unable to follow the path of her compatriots Judith Perelló after losing in three sets to the Korean Jiho Shin. For her part, the Mexican María José Portillo beat the Czech Jana Kareisova, who came from the qualy, by 6-0 and 6-2.
