MADRID, Jan. 8 (SportsFinding) –
The Huelva Carolina Marín, current Olympic champion, leads the Spanish list to compete in the European Team Championship that will host the French town of Liévin from February 11 to 16, as reported by the Spanish Federation (FESBA) on Wednesday.
The Andalusian player, who is recovering her best level after her serious injury of almost a year ago, will be the great trick of the women's team, who will try to be in the fight for the medals as it happened in the 2016 and 2018 editions, Where it was bronze.
Together with the triple world champion, coach Carlos Longo has opted for Clara Azurmendi and Beatriz Corrales for singles and for a wide range of specialists in doubles such as Lorena Uslé, Paula López and Claudia Leal. In addition, veteran Manuela Díaz and young Ania Setién enter the list with the possibility of playing both tests.
Spain comes as the seventh seeded series and is framed in Group 7 along with Poland, Scotland, Norway and Sweden, passing the first and the best second of the seven groups to the quarterfinals.
On the other hand, in terms of the men's team, the chosen ones are veteran Pablo Abián, Luis Enrique Peñalver and Álvaro Vázquez in singles, and Alberto Zapico, Carlos Piris and Joan Monroy for the doubles.
The team, eighth seeded, will try to get into the top eight ranked for the first time in history, for which they must show their favoritism in their group against Bulgaria, Italy, Israel and Croatia, and achieve first place.