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Saturday, August 17, 2019

Frontenis-- FEPelota XII Tourneo de Frontenis Cogeces del Monte

Frontenis is one of the most popular of Basque Pelota sports. It was developed in Mexico early in the 20th Century, but is universally recognized as a Basque Pelota Sport and is very popular in the Basque Country as well as France, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina, among other countries. It is basically 3 wall tennis played on a 30x10 meter court with a very hard rubber ball. The rallies are long because the players are very athletic and mobile.

Rules, court dimensions, pelota, and history of Frontenis (dailysports.com)

Wikipedia

Federation Francaise de Pelote Basque explation of the modality, the "tool", the pelota, and court size.

One of the main sponsoring organizations in Spain, Federacion Espanola de Pelota, sponsored this major tournament, involving Junveniles and Senior, men and women.

The best place to follow Spanish Frontenis

The best place to follow Valencian Frontenis

This Tournament was played at

Cogeses del Monte (1)(2), Spain.

Competition Context and complete results (FEPelota)

Finals results only (FEPelota)

FEPelota Promotional video

Winners and second place finishers were listed in a Tournament article (Associacion de Federaciones Deportivas de Castilla y Leon)

 And also on the FrontenisTour Facebook page.

Full match videos of Men's and Women's (both Juvenile and Senior) were provided by LaLiga4Sports

August 4

FINALS

Complete full match videos (about 4:30:00. Individual Finals matches are linked directly below).

Complete Semi-finals videos (about 7:30:00). You can match up the semi-finals listed at the beginning of the video with their corresponding match scores at the FEPelota competition context page above. Click on "3 Ago".

Note: there are no available videos for the preliminary matches on August 2.

August 4

Finals: Videos are in this order

Juvenile Women

Mereno-Moro 2 Hernandez-Quevas (red) 1
(15-14, 10-15, 10-9)

Juvenile Men

Leon-Pasqual (Red) 2 Garcia-Stancu 0
(15-12, 15-8) (30-20)

Senior Women

Aranez-Gonzalez 2 Simon-Rodriguez (white) 0
(15-7, 15-9) (30-16)

Note: FEPelota results had the blue team listed as team listed as Aranez-Gonzalez, as did the FEPelota match article. Frontenis Tour Twitter also had A-G. Only the broadcasters, LaLiga4Sports had that team listed as Ruiz-Ibanez. Ruiz-Ibanez lost to Aranez-Gonzalez in the semmi-finals, so while it is possible that they replaced A-G for some reason ,the preponderance of sources says they did not.

Senior Men

Moreno-Molina (White) 2 Vidal-Escobar 1
(15-10, 14-15, 10-4) (39-29)

Rankings after the Tournament