Martin Landaluce, US Open junior champion

The Madrilenian Martin Landaluce He cemented his supersonic career in the grassroots categories by winning the US Open junior under-18 tournament at 16.

The CT Chamartín tennis player, with a partial scholarship from the Rafa Nadal Academy, beat the Belgian Gilles Arnaud Bailly by 7-6 (3), 5-7 and 6-2 in 2h.13′.

Lugo’s pupil Oscar Burrieza he has won 55 of 62 matches on the ITF official junior circuit, he has won 21 of the last 22. She adds her seventh title of the course. A semi-finalist at Wimbledon, where she had already beaten her rival in New York, she takes another step forward in her promising career.

It happens in the list of winners Dani Rinconthe best of 2021 and who had taken over from the distant victory of Javier Sanche Vicario in 1986.

“This is going to be one of my last junior tournaments. Now I’m going to get into the professionals a bit, I’ll start playing tournaments, I’ll see how it goes and when I’m 18 I’ll decide if I’m going to go professional or go to university,” he said after his New York success.

In the women’s singles, a big day for the Philippines and the Rafa Nadal Academy since Alexandra Eala beat the Czech Lucie Havlickova 6-2, 6-4 in the final. First success of this magnitude in the Asian country.

There was another Spanish winner of the day, making history as a pioneer. Martin of the Bridgeteaming up with the Frenchman Nicolas Pfeifer, beat the big favourites, the British Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid 4-6, 7-5 and 10-6.

The Galician signed the first Spanish tennis crown in a Grand Slam wheelchair tennis tournament.