Albacete tennis player Guillermo García López has been awarded the Liga MAPFRE Valor de La Nucía, disputed this week at the Ferrer Academy, after defeating the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka in the final. The Spanish player beat his opponent in two rounds, 138 in the world ranking and first seed of the tournament by 6-2 and 6-4.
After the triumph, Guillermo García described the meeting as “disputed” regardless of the result and affirmed that in the first set he showed “a good level” against an opponent “who did not enter the match”. “In the second, Ilya (Ivashka) has played more aggressive, but I have remained serious, I have recovered a break and I have broken again to take the match, “said the player, who said he was” happy “for the victory and for” meeting again with the competition matches “.
The tournament, organized by the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET), It is intended for players from the Top-100 of the ATP men's world ranking, and it has been endowed with 12,400 euros in prizes.
Bucsa wins the last tournament of the Liga MAPFRE for women
Cristina Bucsa he won for his part in the final of the third and last tournament of the MAPFRE women's tennis league, disputed in the Club Tennis Els Gorchs, in the Barcelona town of Les Franqueses del Vallès, after winning Marina Bassols, 6-0 and 6-2, while Gillermo García López He has won in the Mapfre Valor League tournament.
Bucsa, who suffered a lot to get her place in the final against María Gutiérrez, she went for it, He again added the most decisive points and was placed with a clear 4-0 in his favor, against a Bassols that was adding doubts and lack of confidence as the games passed.
Quite the opposite of the Cantabrian, who was increasing in his confidence, which caused him to go from won but equalized partials, to completely dominate his rival. Bucsa chained nine consecutive games, which earned him an initial 6-0, and a 3-0 in the second, an excessive punishment for a Bassols, who never stopped trying.
In fact, the Catalan improved her game at the beginning of the second set, although always behind in the important points that her rival. His first game (3-1 in the second set), was a respite, to take off some of the pressure accumulated from the beginning, although he had a player in front who did not give anything away, looking to be the other player, along with Sara Sorribes, winner of two tournaments, that inscribes her name in the women's MAPFRE League.