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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Pala--Kirol Txartela Masters Tournament--Players--Tournament Regulations--Championship and Third Place Match

The Kirol Txartela Masters Tournament  at the Atano III FrontonDonastia (San Sebastian) began on July 6, 2016.  It ended with a final and third place match on August 17, 2016. The Tournament link above explains the nature of the tournament and how it is to be contested. The same information is also available in less graphic form at InnPala. Basically it was an 8 team doubles tournament, consisting of the entire 10 man InnPala roster along with 6 invited amateurs. The teams were split into two 4 team groups. This was a short court tournament. Each match was contested to a best three out of five 10 point jokos (sets). Table points were determined entirely by number of jokos won. The league phase consisted of a single round robin in each group, with each player playing every other week. Matches took place every Wednesday evening. At the end of the league phase there was a final and a third place match. Source for all match scores unless otherwise stated: InnPala Twitter feed. For more information on professional players see the player pages linked to on the right side of the blog.

Note: *=Amateur

August 17, 2016:

Final:

Navarro*-Brefel defeated Zubiri-Ayerbe 3-2 (6-10, 10-8, 4-10, 10-6, 10-9). (Match and joko score source: EITB).

Third Place Match:

Landeta--Ibai-Perez defeated Arozena*-Irrigoyen* (substituting for Ibargari) 3-1 (10-5, 9-10, 10-4, 10-5). (Match and joko score source: EITB),

Match articles and photos for both matches (source: Innpala Fronton Facebook page).

Selected player analysis article for the league phase of the tournament (source: Innpala Fronton Facebook page).

Full match video for both matches (third place match: 0:00-50 minutes, 32 seconds on the video, final match and trophy presentation: 52:02 to end of video). (Source: EITB).

Sylvain Brefel was named Player of the Tournament.

MY ARTICLE: Individual joko linescores and analysis for both matches

MY ARTICLE: Kirol Txartela Masters Tournament--full tournament summary: scores, cumulative tables, articles, video

Remonte--Tourneo Kutxabank--Workings of the Tournament, Players--Results through the end of the league phase

Oriamendi2010 Player Pages

Note: all the below listed matches, as well as all of the rest of the tournament have been and will continue to be covered individually in the Remonte Galarreta "Star" match results under the recurring results links on the right side of the page.

The 34th Tourneo Kutxabank singles competition, at the Galarrata Fronton (Hernani), a 54 meter mur a gauche, entered its league phase on Saturday, August 13, 2016. The lead up to the league phase was played from July 23 - August 11. Four players have been seeded into the league phase in two groups. Urriza and Endika  are in Group A. Uterga and Barrenetxea IV are in Group B , Nine other players played for the third slot in each group.

The league phase of the tournament ended on August 20, due to a rib injury to Endika which forced him out of the tournament. There was no substitute.

Table determination in the league phase:

Matches are played to 30 points.

Winner of a match--4 points
Loser: 27-29--2 points; 24-26--1 point; <24--0 points

Results:

August 13, 2016:

Group B

Barrenetxea IV defeated Uterga 30-21

August 16, 2016

Group B

Barrenetxea IV defeated Aizpuru III 30-14

August 18, 2016

Group A

Urriza defeated Ion 30-14

August 20, 2016

Group B

Uterga defeated Aizpuru III 30-14

Final League Table:

Group A

Urriza 1-0--4 points
Ion 0-1 (1-1)--0 points
Endika 0-0

Group B

Barrenextea IV 2-0--8 points
Uterga 1-1--4 points
Aizpuru III 0-2 (2-2)--0 points

Semi-finals:

Barrenextea IV v Ion (August 27)
Urriza v Uterga (September 3)

Final will be played September 10

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Preliminaries:

Zaldua defeated Martirena 30-18 on July 23 (Martirena finished 0-1)
Otano defeated Erburu 30-19 on July 28 (Erburu finished 0-1)
Zaldua defeated Otano 30-12 on July 30 (Otano finished 1-1)

Segurola defeated Zaldua 30-28 on August 4 (Zaldua finished 2-1)
Ion defeated Segurola 30-20 on August 9 (Segurola finished 1-1)

Ion won the right to join Urriza and Endika in Group A

Aizpuru III defeated Ansa II 30-17 on August 6 (Ansa II finished 0-1)
Aizpuru III defeated Matxin III 30-29 on August 11 (Matxin III finished 0-1)

Aizpuru III won the right to join Uterga and Barrenetxea IV in Group B.