Day 4. Marrero bids farewell, Guinart-Iglesias and Goñi-Ortega pull off another feat

A hug on the court with her partner, Lucia Martinez Gomez, and with her opponents, Claudia Jensen and Ale Alonso, who put an end to her fantastic career. Another hug off the court, with her family, which will soon be expanding. Despite her defeat in the round of 16 of the Premier Padel Cupra Costa Daurada Tarragona P1, Marta Marrero will find it hard to forget this day. The former world number 1, who also reached the quarter-finals at Roland Garros as a tennis player in 2000, treated herself to one last match as a protagonist, but it ended with a 6-3 7-5 victory for the number 6 seeds. On the same court, the number 3 seeds, Marina Guinart and Victoria Iglesias, achieved another feat after reaching the semi-finals of the Rome Major: with a 7-5 4-6 6-1 victory over Aranzazu Osoro and Veronica Virseda, they earned a place in the quarter-finals of the P1 in Tarragona against Andrea Ustero and Sofia Araujo (4). While the top four seeds all started their campaigns with two-set victories, today’s results also featured a 6-2 6-2 win for Jessica Castelló and Lorena Rufo over Ale Salazar and Martina Calvo (8).

MEN In the men’s draw, meanwhile, two unseeded pairs reached the quarter-finals, which begin on Friday at 10 a.m.: David Gala and Lucas Campagnolo defeated Alex Chozas and Tolito Aguirre (12) 6-4 3-6 7-6, while in the afternoon, qualifiers Aimar Goñi and Mario Ortega, who started in the qualifiers and eliminated Lucas Bergamini and Paquito Navarro yesterday, continued their unforgettable week by also beating Agustin Torre and Enzo Jensen, brother of Claudia, who qualified for the quarter-finals in the women’s draw. Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia conceded four games to Mario Huete and Maxi Arce (6-2, 6-2; tomorrow’s match against Martin Di Nenno and Leo Augsburger), while Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan conceded seven (6-3 6-4) to José Diestro and Juanlu Esbri, setting up a clash between the number 2 seeds and Goñi and Ortega, the surprise of the week.