"XVI National Tournament" Marca Jovenes Promesas 2011

Alex played his first national tournament. The Marca Jovenes Promesas is addressed at players under 16 cathegory. The tournament ran in Academia Sanchez-Casal, in Barcelona. Alex lost in the first qualifying match because of a sores on their feet.

Previous phase

1. 2nd round    : (43) Alex Alvarez (14) lost against (17) Vuc Vukovik (Academia Sánchez-Casal) [26 26]

Playing the Qualitication against Vuc Vukovik

You can see more pictures here National tournament Marca Jovenes Promesas

Draw

 

PD: Number before the name means the RFET points of the player. Number after the name means the number of the seeded player.

Alex playing "zesta-punta" in Bilbao

During Easter, Alex went to Bilbao and had the opportunity to learn one of the modalities of Basque ball (jalai alai in basque language); The "zesta-punta".


The exhibition was in the Esperanza fronton and journalists from the newspaper "El Correo de Vizcaya"and theTV channel "Euskal Televista"  covered the event. Alex was interviewed by "El Correo". You can see the digital editions of both media.

Alex playing "zesta punta" in La Esperanza fronton

You can see more pictures here Alex playing zesta-punta

Interview to Alex in "El Correo de Vizcaya"

La pelota vasca busca nuevos públicos - El Correo 22/04/2011 

Video in the newspaper

Story on TV