The Spanish women’s team beat Argentina 2-0 this Saturday in the final of the World Championship in Doha (Qatar), thus achieving its sixth consecutive title and the ninth in history, breaking the tie it had with the albicelestes.
Spain asserted its role as favorite and defeated the Argentine team after a memorable second match between Ari Sánchez and Paula Josemaría, the best couple in the world, and the Argentine duo formed by Delfina Brea and Claudia Jensen, which lasted for three hours ( 3-6, 7-5 and 7-5).
Spain and Argentina had played in all the World Cup finals with the exception of 2012, in which the Albiceleste beat Brazil, in their last title won before the five won by the Spanish team.
The match that was decisive and that ultimately turned out to be the most even of the entire championship finally leaned towards Sánchez-Josemaría after overcoming a match point.
In the first set, Brea and Jensen were very solid and achieved a break that they held until the end (6-3). The fight continued in the second, which fell on the side of the Spanish after an exchange of breaks that fueled uncertainty, going from 4-1 in favor of Sánchez and Josemaría to 5-4 in Argentina, to resolve the sleeve on the side of the first. The pace did not let up in the final round and both couples worked hard with high-quality points that kept the excitement going at all times. Brea and Jensen went 5-3 and served, but the Spanish saved a match point and ended up finishing the duel 7-5.
Argentina takes its ‘vendetta’ in the men’s World Cup
This Saturday in Doha, the Argentine team achieved its twelfth title – second in a row – as world champion after defeating Spain, four-time champion, 2-1, in a disputed final between the two teams that have shared all the golds. in the 15 editions disputed. Argentina adds this crown to those previously achieved in 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2022.
In the final, Spain took a 1-0 lead with the victory of Arturo Coello and Jorge Nieto over Franco Stupaczuk and Martín di Nenno by a clear 6-1 and 6-2 in 53 minutes, but Argentina rebalanced the duel with a hard-fought victory in three sets, 7-6 (6), 3-6 and 6-2 and just over two hours of fighting, by Arturo Tapia and Federico Chingotto over the duo made up of Juan Lebron and Alejandro Galán.
Lebron and Ale Galán played together again in this World Cup after they decided to separate on March 24 after losing the final of the Mexico tournament due to disagreements between them. They played as a couple for four years and were number one in the world for three years, in which they added 33 titles.
After the victory of Tapia and Chingotto, the title was decided in the third match of the final, an intense and dramatic duel in which Leandro Augsburger, who ended up injured, and Valentino Libaak came back against Miguel Yanguas and Paquito Navarro to end up winning by 3 -6, 7-5 and 7-6 (2). In the match for third place Portugal beat Italy 2-0 in two games resolved in two sets.
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