The earth saver Lucía Rodríguez and her partner Rubén García yesterday they became the only Spanish representatives in pass the first round of Thailand Masters, by beating the Indians Amrutha Pramuthesh and Ashith Surya in the mixed doubles modality in a three-set duel: 13-21, 21-19 and 15-21. The victory allows the Spanish duo, tenth in the European ranking, to advance to the round of 16, where they will have a very complicated challenge against the Indonesians Amri Syahnawi and Nita Violina Marwah, eighteenth in the world ranking and fourth seeds in the tournament.
On the first day of the event, held last Tuesday, Lucía Rodríguez had already entered the game in the previous round of women’s doubles qualification, in which she competed alongside Paula López and They lost clearly to the Chinese Taipei duo formed by Yuan An Chou and Yi-Hsuan Sung (21-14 and 21-11). In this same category, Nikol Carulla, from the Vigo club Cíes, and Carmen Jiménez from Ibiza also competed on Tuesday, but they were directly in the round of 32 of the main draw. In the end, they suffered the same fate, after the Hong Kong duo of Fan Ka Yan and Yau Mau Ying fell (17-21 and 16-21).
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