Day4. Roland Garros brings luck to Icardo: Tamara reaches the semifinals with Ortega. And Delfi moves up to number 2

A year ago, Tamara Icardo came back to the court at Roland Garros after a long injury break, and in the Paris Major she immediately reached the quarterfinals, paired with Claudia Jensen. A year later, and after putting her bad luck behind her, the Spanish player, currently ranked 12^th, did even better: paired with Marta Ortega, Icardo defeated Madrid P1 champions Bea Gonzalez and Claudia Fernandez 7-6 6-2 to qualify for the semifinal of the Premier Padel Alpine Paris Major. The match lasted two hours and 31 minutes and featured a first set that was a marathon lasting over an hour and a half. On the other side of the net, in the semifinal that will open the programme at 1 p.m. CET on Philippe Chatrier, will be Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez, who eliminated Bea Caldera and Carmen Goenaga with a score of 6-2, 6-4. The other semifinal will see the number 1 and 4 pairs face off: Delfi Brea, who is sure to climb to second place in the FIP ranking with this victory, and Gemma Triay defeated Ksenia Sharifova and Virginia Riera 6-1 6-1, as did Andrea Ustero and Sofia Araujo with a 6-1 7-5 victory over Aranzazu Osoro and Veronica Virseda.

MEN In the men’s draw, the top four seeds will battle it out for the two spots in Sunday’s final. At the top, Arturo Coello and Agustin Tapia struggled in one set against Javi Garcia and Javier Barahona before closing out 7-5 6-1. Tomorrow, they will face Franco Stupaczuk and Juan Lebron (6-1 6-1 against Fran Guerrero and Javi Leal). In the bottom half, Fede Chingotto and Ale Galan took advantage of the withdrawal due to injury of Edu Alonso and Jairo Bautista and now await Mike Yanguas and Coki Nieto, who ended the exciting week of Gonzalo Rubio and Javi Ruiz with a score of 6-0 6-4.