Finland Premier Padel P2, day 5. Nieto-Sanz, another feat: now the final with Di Nenno-Lebron

A new pair against one playing together for months. Two different stories, those of Martin Di Nenno and Juan Lebron and Coki Nieto and Jon Sanz, opponents tomorrow in the final of the Finland Premier Padel P2. On the one hand the number 1 seed on the draw, sharing the court for the first time; on the other the number 6 seed, among the few – given the dominance of Coello/Tapia and Chingotto/Galan – to have already won a Premier Padel circuit title. It happened in Bordeaux, and it could happen again in Finland, thanks to the victory in the semifinals against another new pair, Pablo Cardona and Paquito Navarro (3), at the end of a battle that lasted two hours and 22 minutes and ended 7-6 3-6 7-6, with Nieto/Sanz more lucid in the decisive moments and able to close the match with a smash by Jon after Cardona and Navarro had taken the match to the third set with a break. Di Nenno and Lebron, on the other hand, eliminated Momo Gonzalez and Edu Alonso in two sets (6-4 6-3): if for Di Nenno it will be the second final of the season (the only one, the Argentine lost in Sevilla), Lebron will find himself in a final that he had been missing since the P1 in Acapulco, with the chance of conquering his second title of the season after Riyadh, when he played in a pair with Galan.

WOMEN In the women’s draw, on the other hand, two more tested pairs will play for the title, from 12 Finnish time (11 a.m. CET). Paula Josemaria and Ari Sanchez will be chasing their sixth title of the season, the 33rd as a pair: a victory that would allow the two Spaniards, number 1 in the seeding and in the FIP ranking, to distance the ‘Gemelas Atomikas’ Mapi and Majo Sanchez Alayeto. In the semifinals, Paula and Ari struggled in the first set against Ale Alonso and Andrea Ustero: down 4-2, however, Josemaria and Sanchez shifted gears, closing 6-4 6-1 in one hour and 15 minutes. Marta Ortega and Sofia Araujo, the number 2 seed, will be hunting for their second title in three tournaments since their reunion: the Spaniard and the Portuguese, in the second semifinal that lasted two hours and 9’, defeated Alejandra Salazar and Veronica Virseda, who had found themselves ahead 4-1 in the tiebreak of the second set before suffering six points in a row, until the 6-3 7-6 with which Ortega/Araujo reached the final with Josemaria/Sanchez, who will want to take revenge after the knockout in Genova.