The Hungarian Luca Udvardy and the American Nicholas Godsick reached the ITF J1 Salinas crown Junior World Cup tennis which was played on the courts of the Salinas Golf & Tennis Club.
After a delay in the start of programming due to the presence of rain, the four protagonists of the finals gave a first level show, since the points that were given to the winners needed them to be placed in the top 50 of ranking youth in order to have access to the junior Grand Slam.
Hungarian Luca Udvardy, 16 years old and No. 68 in the ranking youth ITF, had to work hard to break Madeleine Jessup (Taipei), with 16 years and no. 94 youth.
It was the second time that both tennis players faced each other this season since at the beginning of January they played in the second round in the J1 of San Juan, where the hungarian was the winner. In this second final, the victory was once again for Udvardy, with a score of 6-4, 7-6(4).
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The men’s final was even closer. Godsick (#43) and the Paraguayan Martin Vergara (#61), both 17-years-old, pulled out all the stops to take the title despite the intense heat and high humidity. The American fell in the first set 2-6 against a rival who settled his game after the fourth game.
The second set was won by Godsick 6-4, despite showing many physical discomforts that caused medical assistance and made it foreseeable that he would leave the matchbut on the contrary, it continued in competition and in the third set twice broke the service of his rival and closed the game with a 6-2 in his favor.
94 tennis players from the United States, Germany, Peru, Paraguay, Slovakia, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Great Britain, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Israel, France, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, China, Japan participated in the tournament. , Sweden, Venezuela and Canada.
Cosat G1 Guayaquil Bowl
Parallel to the Youth World Cup, the Annex of the Guayaquil Tennis Club also played the Cosat Grade 1 South American Tour Tournament Guayaquil Bowl Banco Guayaquil Cup, categories 14 and 16 years, in ladies and men.
Due to the presence of rain, on the last day quarterfinal, semifinal and final matches were played for both genders and they were in short sets (4 games).
In the men’s 14-year-old final, between Brazilians, Pedro Henrique Chabalgoity beat Pedro Albuquerque 1-0 (retirement). In ladies, the Venezuelan Mariangel Estrella won the Brazilian Leticia Marangoni by 4-1 and 4-0.
The 16-year-old boys final went to the Brazilian Gustavo Ribeiro Almeida, who defeated 4-2, 4-0 at Argentine Ramiro Toninelli; in ladies, the Colombian Mariana Isabel Higuita was imposed on the Peruvian Elizaveta Castillo by 5-4(4), 2-4, (10-4). (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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