Asier Torres, player of the Almería merchandise and the municipal sports schools, gets gold in the double test with his partner of Huelva David Carvajal and the Bronze in Individuals in the Spanish Sub-13 championship held last weekend in Ibiza.
Asier, along with his training partners Ángel Alonso and Rosana García went to Ibiza accompanied by coach Juan Manuel Fernández with different objectives.Ángel and Rosana with the aim of giving experience and enjoying an event of the highest national level and Asier Torres with clear options to take medal in individual and double.
The championship began on Friday morning with the phases of groups of each of the modalities.While Asier Torres achieved with solvency the pass to the individual painting by Galician Carlos Segovia and the Catalan Erik Castañeda in two comfortable sets and in male doubles against the Aragonese Hugo Gallego/Jorge Royo and the Galicians Pablo Albores/Martín Rey also for 2 a 20, Rosana and Ángel fought without success in the individual mode where only the group champion passed, being an angel near giving surprise when falling into the game for first place against Navarro Íñigo Jiménez in the third and final Set.On the other hand, in the mixed doubles modality, they deployed their best game to move to the quarterfinals winning in the decisive match to the Balearic Islands Sara Tur/David Hormigo (21-12/21-10).
Already on Saturday, Asier began the Almeria representation with the match of the round of 16 against the BalearFight for medals of the evening.In the quarterfinals, the mixed doubles of Ángel and Rosana did not fall on the Almeria side despite having real options in both sets finally giving before the Galicians Dario Miguez/Sara Sanjurjo (14-21/16-21) with what, ofThe same way, their participation ended with a meritorious 5th place in a Spanish championship.Asier with his partner David managed to beat the Valencian Felix Sanz/Lucas Valles comfortably (21-13/21.12) ensuring the first medal.In individual, he would also reach victory in a hard match against Galician Darío Miguez (20-22/21-17/21-14) going from less to more throughout the meeting.
On Sunday the semifinal round was played, where Asier had double appointment for entering the final starting with the double round where the numbers 1 of the national ranking, the Castilianoleonese Miguel Pérez/Hugo Sanz/Hugo Sanz.In a splendid match of the Andalusians they could close the match in two sets (21-15/21-17) and thus get the pass to the final.In the individual modality, fate made Asier and David, fellow doubles, cross in the game for the final and, after more than an hour of encounter, finally the Huelva would get the victory (21-23/21-11/19 -twenty-one).Without time to think, the grand final came where Asier had to recover physically and mentally from the individual to face the most important party of his short sports career.They were waiting for Madrid Pablo Sanz/Martin Fenoll (2nd series heads) and after 35 minutes of play, Asier and David were accurate at the decisive moments of each set (21-18/21-19) and completed a perfect championship without giving upNot a single game throughout the weekend.
With the participation of Ángel, Rosana and Asier in the Spanish Sub 13 championship, a dream season for the Almería merchandise was closed that had never achieved 3 golds and 1 bronze in the same season, in addition to the meritorious 5th place of Angel and Rosana.In fact, Asier Torres becomes, since last Sunday, the fourth Almeria player to get the title of champion of Spain after the victories of Joaquín Reina (2011), Belén Peña (2016) and Macarena Fernández only two weeks ago (2021).
In the words of the coach, Juan Manuel Fernández Quiles, “we have managed to finish the season in a brilliant way and now it is time to rest and prepare a 2022 where we will not have such clear objectives of a medal, since most of them spend the category being first year but wherewill be the opportunity to grow as players and train more and better without the pressure of obtaining results ”.
