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Return the excitement of the Yellow Bowl to the El Cortijo Tennis Club Academy. Next Tuesday the 20th, and until Sunday the 25th, the most brilliant tournament for the young promises of the racket will be resolved, who will meet again in Telde after the impact of the coronavirus in 2020 and that caught the planet by surprise. A year later, with the greater rigor and security offered by both the organization of the event and the collaborating administrations, the ball once again flies over the clay.
And for now, the ITF Junior Gran Canaria Yellow Bowl is full of great expectations of participants. Young people are eager to move their rackets again and the number of registrations has exceeded 600 applications, which will arrive on the Island from 50 different nationalities to put into practice the training they have been exercising this season of confinement and care regarding to the virus.
The courts of El Cortijo will once again dress up with the stream of boys and girls, along with their coaches and tutors who will come once again to Telde to be aware of the future of the promises of tennis. The competitive atmosphere returns to the clay courts and you are sure to see top-level tennis.
Because these are the first Grands Slams experienced by young people, and since 1990, when the Tennis Europe Junior Tour was born, it has been developing legends of this sport such as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Maria Sharapova or Caroline Wozniacki. All of them went through a tournament on this youth tour one day, which today brings together more than 350 tournament around the world and in which El Cortijo is one of them.
Opportunity for island people
Thus, the great academies of the national scene have come to meet at the courts of the Teldense municipality. The prestigious Rafa Nadal Academy, is already present on the Island with 20 of its players, who have traveled from Mallorca to train for this competition. Also present is Equelite, a school founded by Juan Carlos Ferrero and to which the great promise of Spanish tennis, Carlos Alcaraz, belongs. In addition to the TES Carles Ferrer Salat.
In this way, with the arrival of the great academies, as well as the most brilliant tennis promises in Europe, the Canarian Navy has the opportunity to face players who, a priori, have a higher level, but against whom it is essential to face each other in order to raise the level of competition in the future.
Since the Yellow Bowl has risen in level in the current edition, up to the J-4 qualification, it shows that the Tomás Quesada, Andrea Pérez, Zara Cabrera, Ivan Pérez, Rubén Diaz or Paula Rodríguez, will be able to measure themselves against the most granado of its categories.
The preliminary phase in which 64 players will compete to reach the final table of the Yellow Bowl remains to be resolved during this weekend, in what is expected a fierce fight for the right to measure themselves with the most outstanding young people on the scene international.
An evolution in the level of demand on the orange court that will deliver “good tennis”, as David Marrero stated yesterday during the presentation of the tournament on the courts of El Cortijo and where he was accompanied by both the Sports Councilor of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria Francisco Castellano, as well as the Telde Sports Councilor, Diego Ojeda; They were seconded by the Managing Director of Grupo Brisa and Arimotor Fernando Gonzalez; the president of the Gran Canaria Tennis Federation, José Juan Sepúlveda; and the tournament director Acaymo Medina Rivero.
The facilities of El Cortijo Tennis Club can be attended by all racket lovers who wish to do so and choose to enjoy a week of good ball exchanges, “as long as the covid rules” established by the venue are respected.
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