Alejandra Salazar and Gemma Triay are the best couple of the year, and Ari Sánchez and Paula Josemaría the best in the ranking. This Sunday they will meet again in a final in which a change in the classification of the year is at stake, or in the approach in the general. It doesn’t matter, because it actually gives the impression that both couples are going to face each other many times this season: this is the 24th final between the two pairs..
More than numbers: Ale and Gemma have played in all the finals of all the tournaments they have played this season, which means that they have a streak of thirteen Sundays in a row without missing the appointment for a title counting the last tournaments of 2022. That they have only lost against Paula and Ari, who this year have won more tournaments than their rivals, and with a streak of three consecutive. Fourteen finals have never been played between two female couples, with which the Vigo match will set a record. And from an individual point of view: Alejandra Salazar reaches the final 46 of her career, only surpassed by Belasteguín, who in the words of Ari Sánchez make her the best player in history.
Today, for example, in the third duel of the year in the semifinals between Gemma and Ale against Delfina Brea and Bea González, They won the first set again (4-6), but then got confused, played balls to the right of Alejandra, who destroyed her rivals with that replica 6-2, 6-3. Ari and Paula, for their part, are going further in tournaments, and they eliminated Marta Ortega and Sofi Araujo in two sets: 6-4 and 6-1; the advantage of the winners is that at this moment they have such a variety of shots and defend with an intensity that makes it difficult for all couples.
Galán and Lebrón return to a final in this Vigo tournament in which they reappear after Juan’s injury, that at the end of the match against Sanyo and Momo González he made signs that are difficult to interpret as to how his arm is. In any case, it was possibly their best game of the year to defeat Sanyo and Momo by a double 6-4that despite focusing on specific errors of the losers, hehe numbers one in the ranking force rivals to make maximum efforts to have some option. Tapia and Coello will be in the final, who beat Di Nenno and Stupaczuk by a double 6-4. The party is the fight between the kings and the aspirants to occupy that position. Tapia and Coello aspire to the number, their seventh consecutive final, with six wins and 31 games (all) undefeated; In addition, he has already won this season (with controversy included) against the Spanish couple.
