Selenia Pla Mompó shines again in the National Parabadminton

Selenia Pla Mompó faced her second participation in a C.Spain with the responsibility of defending the good results achieved in the last edition.

In the women’s individual event of the SU5/SL4 category, she faced the athlete from Granada Cristina Sánchez De Lechina, who did not make things easy for the Setabense, because the match, despite being decided in two sets, lasted until 41 minutes long, due to the intense rallies and equality on the scoreboard. Finally, the Setabense was more consistent in the last rallies of each set, which led her to revalidate the title in the women’s singles event by winning 21-16 and 21-18.

On the other hand, in the test mixed doubles teamed up with Pablo Serrana from CB Astures and played the final against the couple formed by Iván Segura and Cristina Sánchez De Lechina. Another final with a lot of equality in all sections of the match and that He opted for the side of Selenia and Pablo by 21-15 and 21-16, getting the second gold of the day.

Parallel to the Spanish Absolute and Para badminton championships, the Inclusive Games 2022. These were the great novelty of the weekend, by having a competition in which players from the Absolute Championship played with athletes from the Parabadminton Championship, forming mixed pairs between them.

These were played on Saturday where there were some matches of great equality in the semifinals and the final. this time Selenia played this tournament as a couple with player Enrique Fernández from CB Universidad de Valladolid. In the semifinals they faced the couple formed by Manuela Diaz and Iván Segura in a great match that lasted up to an hour and two minutes and where the 4 athletes worked hard to get the pass to the final. The first set fell on the side of Manuela and Iván 23-21, in the second Selenia and Enrique achieved equality on the scoreboard (22-24) and in the third and final set Iván i Manuela prevailed again (21-19) who thus achieved the pass to the final after a match with a lot of equality on the scoreboard. Despite this Selenia and Enrique got the bronze.

CB Xàtiva closes its participation in the TTR of Enguera with 14 medals.

The day of last Saturday May 7 was completed with the participation of fourteen athletes from the Xativa Badminton Club in the Top TTR intended for the lower categories disputed in the town of Enguera. The Jaime Alegre Municipal Pavilion was once again the meeting point for 102 athletes from the Valencian Community, as well as from Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid and the Balearic Islands.

In the Under-13 category where in the mixed doubles Feliu Terol and Martina Molina prevailed in the final against the couple formed by Arnau Ballester and Angela Domene (CB Villena) In this way, the Setabenses obtained gold and silver.

In the women’s individual event Martina Molina got the pass to the final phase after qualifying as first in the group. In the semifinals, he faced Mengual Erika, whom he overcame without difficulty to stand in the final against the CB Teulada player María Magdalena Ortolá in a vibrant 49-minute match that began to favor María’s side by winning the first set 16-21, but The Setabense knew how to get the best of her game to turn the score around in the following two sets by winning 21-17 and 21-16, achieving gold.

In it male section highlight on the one hand great role of Arnau Balleser in the Sub-11 category and who played this tournament in Sub-13 achieving a creditable second place in group A. On the other hand, Feliu Terol got through to the knockout stage after winning both group C games. Once in the semifinals, he faced Germán Ripoll, whom he beat 21-17 and 21-18 in a very even match. Bruno Giménez from Madrid awaited him in the final, with whom he played a great match in which equality was the tonic during many phases of the match, both athletes alternating rallies, the first set fell on Bruno’s side 21-14, but Feliu reacted to score the second by 17-21 and thus dispute the third set that would decide the champion, Despite Feliu’s struggle and a great dedication, he had to settle for silver after giving up a tight 21-17.

In the Under-15 category where Sarai Ramón despite making three good matches, achieving victory in one of them, could not achieve the passage to the final phase of the tournament.

Already in the Under-17 categorygreat role of Andrea Orquin that, after spending two days with a fever, managed to access the finals of women’s singles and women’s doubles, but after all the matches of the day and the two days in bed he could not play 100%. In the first of the finals, she faced the athlete Ángela Viray, in a match in which the Setabense won the first set 21-23, but in the second she suffered the effort made in the semifinals against Ana Cava, whom he defeated after three sets (21-16, 14-21 and 21-11) running out of strength to give up 21-11 and 21-13 in the remaining two sets. With hardly any recovery time, together with her partner Sara Sáez (CB Drop Valencia), she played the final of the women’s double against the local couple formed by Soraya Gandía and Núria Martínez who scored the first set 21-18, the second was identical score, but on the side of Andrea and Sara, to decide everything in the third set by another tight 21-17 in favor of the enguerinas.

In the male section where brothers Cimas, Marcos and Jesús managed to climb to the top of the podium to win gold in the men’s doubles event after defeating the couple from Alicante formed by Mateo Fernández and Daniel Conca in the last game of the day. In the individual section both got the third place after giving up their respective matches in the semifinals.

In the under-19 category, in the female section it was achieved by Maria Sanz and Lucia Chorques (CB Drop Valencia) won gold in the women’s doubles event and bronze for the couple formed by Carla Pérez and Sarai Ramón. In the individual section Carla could not access the final phase after being framed in a high level group.

in boys, fourth place by David Polopby finishing second in the group, and this time Jaume Tur and Hugo Medina stayed on the verge of being among the six best athletes.

In the men’s doubles, our two partners Jaume Tur / Hugo Medina and David Polop / Vicent Molina had to settle for bronze after having to deal with a complicated draw.

We close with silver won by Vicent Molina and Maria Sanzwho after defeating one of the couples that were candidates for the title, the locals Carolina Esteve and Sergio Suarez, fell in the final against Ferran Llopis and Edurne Olmos by a tight 21-19 and 21-16.