The TRAM Barcelona Open, International Wheelchair Tennis Tournament reaches its sixth edition as an ITF1 tournament. The competition starts this Wednesday May 24 and lasts until Sunday May 28. The TRAM Barcelona Open became the first ITF1 tournament in Spain and one of 10 tournaments in the world with this classification. In addition, a year later it ranks as the first tournament of the land tour before Roland Garros.
This year’s poster is truly extravagant, featuring the best wheelchair tennis players in the world. Among the participants in the men’s category is British Alfie Hewett, no. 1 in the world, Argentine Gustavo Fernández, two-time champion of the tournament and no. 3 in the world and Martín de la Puente, no.1 in Spain and no. 7 in the world, among others. In the women’s category, the tournament will feature Dutch Diede de Groot, no. 1 in the world, Japanese Yui Kamiji, no.2 and Chinese Zhen Zhen Zhu, no. 6 in the world.
The test will be held for another year at the facilities of the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona. This Tuesday the presentation was made in the center court, where they participated Gustavo Fernández, Martín de la Puente, Yui Kamiji and Angelica Bernal.
They also joined us in the presentation Àlex Corretja as an interviewer, Javier Moreno, head of the tennis section of the Real Club de Polo de Barcelona; Jordi Tamayo, president of the Catalan Tennis Federation; Javier Soler, technical director of the Spanish Tennis Federation; Also Roura, director of the Cruyff Foundation and Jose Coronado, director of the tournament.
The motto of this year’s tournament is once again ‘My only limit is set by the track’, which reflects the spirit of improvement of the players participating. 2
The tournament once again welcomes the quad category, aimed at tennis players who have affected the upper and lower extremities, with the aim of offering the same opportunities to all categories of the International Federation. In this category, the tournament will also feature world number one, Dutchman Niels Vink.
At the TRAM Barcelona Open, the Catalan capital, considered a world reference for the world of sports, for five days it becomes a great annual event for adapted sports.
The tournament is open to the public, pre-reserved free entrythrough its website (www.barcelona-open.com) promoting all the values it represents of social inclusion, equal opportunities and personal development.
Source: La Verdad
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