The 2024 season is coming to an end, as far as official competitions of the Spanish Badminton Federation and its associated Autonomous Federations are concerned; This is why the different Spanish Championships are being held in all categories, thus during the weekend of November 8 to 10, 2024, the Spanish U17 Championship was held in the Huelva town of Palos de la Frontera. .
The Spanish Badminton Championships, in the U17 category, are held in the individual modality by registration of the best 48 rackets in the country, both female and male, as long as they have sufficient ranking for it, a fact that due to the effort and results obtained throughout the year 2024, coinciding with the Season, have been achieved by Jimena Alonso and Marcos Romero, the two Albatros have traveled to Palos de la Frontera (Huelva), competing in direct elimination, with even previous rounds, until reaching the final.
The albatross Jimena Alonso, being a first-year U17 and current number 34 in Spain, won the first round prior to the Bulgarian Ivayla Valentinova, who competes with the Valencian Badminton club Enguera, to find herself in the second round with the Asturian Belén Soto, of the Badminton Oviedo, current number 8 in the national ranking, which they also managed to beat, to reach the Round of 16, where they did not She was able to beat Inés Poncela, ranked number 11, a Galician from Badminton San Amaro, to finish classified in a wonderful ninth place in the most important Championship at the national level.
The male Albatros representative had worse luck, also being a first-year U17 and current number 39 in Spain, as Marcos Romero could not in his first match played, with the Castilian-Leonese Pablo García, from Badminton Ordoño, from León number 33 in the ranking, in a very close match that was decided in the third set, which could have fallen to either side of the net, finishing in seventeenth place in the Championship.
One more experience for these two members of the Badminton Albatros Cuenca, who day by day are adding matches, this time in an entire Spanish Championship in which not those who want to compete but those who can due to the work and good work of the entire Season compete. , and that we hope will serve as an incentive for future commitments.
On the other hand, Kristina Stanislavova traveled to Tordesillas (Valladolid) taking Albatros and Cuenca to Castellano-Leonesas lands, to compete in a TTR Tournament, scoring for the national ranking, looking for some last points to get to compete in the Spanish U15 Championship , which will be held in just two weeks, in the Murcian town of Las Torres de Cotillas.
In the U15 Women’s Individual category, Kristina Stanislavova was the number 5 seed, with a ranking of 48, that is, she had four players ahead of her with a better ranking than her, but this was not an obstacle to qualifying as first in the group, after win the three matches played in this one, to advance to the final draw, where great joy would await us, since we were in the Quarterfinals with Clara Vida, from Badminton Valladolid, whom She won, and then in the semifinals she left the number 24 in the ranking, Cristina Martínez, from Badminton Guadalajara, in the gutter, and not happy with that, in the final she beat Sara Muñoz, from Badminton Burgos and number 21 in the ranking, to become CHAMPION of the TTR.
Kristina Stanislavova also competed in the U15 Mixed Doubles modality, partnering with Alejandro González, from Badminton Moral de Calatrava; In this case they passed the group stage with ease and in the final draw they reached the semi-finals, where they could not beat those who would be the first classified in the Tournament, to finish as third classified in the TTR.
