MADRID, 28 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Mutua Madrid Open, the fourth Masters 1,000 and WTA 1,000 of the season, will host a wheelchair tennis exhibition match this Sunday in which the players María Torres, Marcela Quintero, Francesc Prat and Rubén Castilla will bring this modality closer to all fans who attend the Caja Mágica.
In addition, the players will share a training session with children with disabilities from Madrid schools on Saturday, thanks to the support of Procter & Gamble (P&G) Health.
Barcelona’s Francesc Prat, current number 6 in the national ranking and doubles specialist, has won nine national titles since 2013, when he debuted his record in Zaragoza. His first great individual success came in 2022, also in the Aragonese capital, and this season he has already won the Marbella Open. In 2017, in addition, he was proclaimed the winner of the ITF international tournament in Pistesi (Romania) in the doubles category.
The Madrid champion in 2021, Rubén Castilla, will be his rival in the exhibition match. The athlete combines tennis with wheelchair paddle tennis, a sport in which he became Spanish champion between 2013 and 2015. Two seasons ago he joined the Emilio Sánchez Vicario Foundation as coach of both sports.
In this mixed doubles match to a single set of four games, the athletes María Torres and Marcela Quintero will also participate, who are the current numbers two and four, respectively, of the women’s national ranking of the specialty.
The meeting will be held on the Manolo Santana slope of the Caja Mágica from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and will be attended by the president of the Spanish Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda; the president of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET), Miguel Díaz Román, and the director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Juan Fernández Carnicer.
As a complement to this initiative and thanks to the support of P&G Health, Quintero, Torres y Castilla will go to the facilities of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation in Fuencarral to share a training session with children with disabilities who are preparing in the 23 RFET schools and the BePro Foundation. In addition, some of these young people will later be able to attend the exhibition in the Caja Mágica.