Aspe’s pelotaris Jose Javier Zabaletawho has just won the txapela of the Couples Championship, and Benat Rezusta cause low last minute in the Manomanista Championship 2023which was presented this Wednesday in Salinas de Añana and Starts this Friday, April 7. Aitor Elordi and Danel Elezkano will be the substitutes from Zabaleta and Rezusta. This coming weekend, until Monday, in Lekeitio, Labastida, Ezcaray and Tolosa, the round of 16 of the championship will be played; In the quarterfinal phase, a league will be played, which includes several breaks per day. A total of twelve pelotarissix per company, are going to try to get the txapela in the final, which is going to be played on June 4 in Bilbao.

Thus, the Manomanista 2023 will begin in Lekeitio, in the Santi Brouard pediment, with the elimination of round of 16 between Mikel Urrutikoetxea and Aitor Elordi, recent champion of the Couples. The round of 16 will continue to be played for the next three days: for Saturday, the appointment is in Labastida, where Elezkano II will play against Iñaki Artola; on Sunday, in Ezcaray, it will be the turn for Dario and Aitor Aranguren; and on Monday, in Tolosa, the tie between Peio Etxeberria and Jon Alberdi will complete the table of qualifiers for the quarterfinals.

that phase of quarter finalsAs in 2022, it will take place in a league format. The pelotaris are going to be distributed in two groups; in one of them, they will be Unai Laso and Jokin Altuna, in addition to the winners of the heats that are going to be played in Lekeitio and Labastida (that is, Urrutikoetxea or Elordi and Elezkano II or Artola); in the other group, Joseba Ezkurdia and Erik Jaka They will accompany the winners in Ezcaray (Darío or Aranguren) and in Tolosa (Peio Etxeberria or Alberdi). The novelty is that each day there will be breaks, so that each weekend there will be two or three games scheduled, not four, with which the participating pelotaris will have the chance to enjoy more rest.

Finished the quarterfinals, already in semifinals, on May 20 and 21, the crosses will put the first of each group face to face with the second of the other. Those who win in the run-up to the final will get the ticket to the ultimate match, which will take place in Bilbao on June 4; there it will be known who gets the txapela that Unai Laso won brilliantly in the last edition in this 2023. Before, on May 28, the match for third place.

As has been said, Zabaleta is out at the last minute due to a broken finger on his right hand, which occurred this Tuesday while training. Beñat Rezusta, for his part, is not one hundred percent ready to compete in the Manomanista.

Source: Eitb

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