The BBVA Open Internacional Valencia Tournament will begin this Monday with the first matches of the main draw, which will feature ten players from the top-100 and where the reigning champion, Italian Martina Trevisan, who reached the Roland Garros semifinals this week, is finally gone.
The tournament was directed by Anabel Medina and organized by Tennium rose this year in the category, becoming the first WTA125 tournament in the history of the Valencian Community and one of the few to be held in Spanish territory, with prizes of up to 115,000 dollars for its participants.
This competition will culminate the clay court season on the women’s circuit on the courts of the Sporting Club de Tenis de Valencia, which will have a capacity of more than a thousand seats at its headquarters.
This Sunday the main draw took place where the main seed was the Spanish Nuria Párrizas (51 in the WTA rankings) to face Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto in the first round.
Other favorites are Russians Varvara Gracheva and Anastasia Potapova, Chinese Qinwen Zheng, Dutch Arantxa Rus, Hungarian and last year’s finalist Dalma Galfi, Slovak Kristina Kucova or French Diane Parry.
Also, the tournament organization invited the Argentine Solana Sierra who had just been declared junior runner-up at Roland Garros, in addition to Spaniards Aliona Bolsova and Irene Burillo.
Valencia will be the first tournament on the WTA calendar to offset its full carbon footprint and will also host U-16 competition and Blind tennis exhibition matches in parallel with the tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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