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
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Multiple Modalities--Men and Women--Basque Pelota at the XVIII Pan American Games in Lima, Peru
The XVIII Pan American Games were held from July 27-August 11, 2019 in Lima, Peru. Basque Pelota returned to the Games for the first time since 2011 with 10 sports contested, 6 men's and 4 women's.
Mexico led the Gold and Total BP medal winners with 5 and 9 respectively. Argentina was 2nd with 3 and 8.
InnPala's Pablo Hernan "Fusto" represented Argentina in Paleta Cuero, one of the Basque Pelota sports being contested.
(Deia article)
Fusto-Alfredo Villegas won the gold medal for Argentina in Paleta Cuero without losing a set.
Aug 4. Arg. 2 Cuba 0 (15-6, 15-9) (30-15)
Aug. 5. Arg. 2 USA 0 (15-8, 15-2) (30-10)
Aug. 6. Arg. 2 Peru 0 (15-8, 15-4) (30-12)
Aug.7. Arg. 2 Mexico 0 (15-10, 15-7) (30-17)
Aug. 10. (Gold Medal) Arg. 2 Cuba 0 (15-6, 15-11) (30-17) (150-71) (Source: Pan American Games Basque Pelota Results)
For complete results see Pan Am Games Results Page and scroll to "Basque Pelota"
For Finals Results only see the Wikipedia article
Deportivo)
Feature article (Mundo Deportivo)
At this time, I have been able to find only 2 related videos. If I find more, I will add them here.
Men's singles Peruvian Fronton Gold Medal Match
(15-6, 15-11) (30-17) (pgn78 Youtube)
Match article (Mundo Deportivo)
There were 4 women's sports:
Pairs Paleta Pelote de Goma (Trinquet and Fronton),
Pairs Frontenis (Fronton), and
Singles Peruvian Fronton Gold Medal Match
Suarez (Peru) 2 Duran (Cuba) 0 (pgn78 Youtube (video begins at 5-5 in the 2nd set)
(15-4, 15-14) (30-18)
Match article (Mundo Deportivo)
Main Nue--Masters and Open do Marcat--Peyrehorade (July 17-August 7, 2019)
These were two singles tournaments, and will be played on Wednesdays between July 17 and August 7, 2019. The Masters was a professional tournament, the Open an amateur tournament.
Complete Calendar (touismelandes.com)
Promotion Poster with complete calendar (Trinquet Recalde Facebook)
As always, with one (or multiple) tournaments that took place over a long time period, for chronolgical order, read each tournament from the bottom up.
Source for all scores (Trinquet Rekalde Facebook full match videos and Esku Pilota Resultats
The players:
Masters
Ospital; Guichandut; L. Lambert; Ducassou
This is an excellent, annual three week tournament that features some of the best professionals (3 are in the top 6 of the Esku Pilota rankings as of July 29, 2019--Ducassou, and Ospital, are #1 and 3 respectively). The amateurs in the Open Tournament (see below) are among the best in Main Nue. Unfortunately this tournament gets very little press, but what it does have, which more than makes up for that, is, for the first time, complete video coverage. The Trinquet appears to be narrower than a normal one, and perhaps a bit shorter, but the players make the tournament no matter what the surface, and this one was excellent. featuring one terrifically competitive match in each category. And you won't see a much better match anywhere or any time than the Masters final was. Note. There is no scoreboard to watch in any of these matches, but the score is called out on almost each point.
Merci Beaucoup, Trinquet Rekalde!
August 7
FINAL
Ducassou 40 Ospital 36 (Trinquet Rekalde Facebook full match video) (match begins at -1:26:50 from the RIGHT side of the slider bar)
July 31
2nd Semi-Final
Ducassou 40 L. Lambert 20 (Trinquet Rikalde full match video)
July 17
1st Semi-final
Ospital 40 Guichandut 17 (Trinquet Rekalde Facebook full match video). Note the orientation is incorrect on this video. Best viewed on a device you can easily turn on its side.
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Open
The players: To help you become familiar with these players, who are among the best on the amateur scene, and may be on the Esku Pilota roster at some time in the future, I have linked selected match videos of them in action. Enjoy.
Jean-Philippe Bennesse (Final Landes Singles 1st series, March 3, 2019--Benesse is in black) (Pays d'Othe Main Nue condensed full match video;
Mickael Massonde (Championnat Pays Basque 1st series match--February 24, 2019--Massonde is bearded) (Pilota TTiki condensed full match video)
Etienne Lafitte (Goyats du Marcat--August 2017-Lafitte is in green) (Pays d'Orthe Main Nue Youtube)
Peio Tellier (Tellier is a mano specialist who competed in the 2018 FIPV world championships)
Christophe Cigarroa (FFPB Championnat de France Individuel Final--April 21, 2019--Cigarroa is in white)
Cigarroa showed, in this tournament, why he is arguably the best amateur player in this modality at the moment.
August 7
FINAL
Cigarroa 40 Benesse (substituting for Massonde) 23 (Trinquet Rekalde Facebook full match video--first match on the video)
July 24
2nd Semi-Final
Massonde 40 Benesse 37 (Trinquet Rekalde Facebook full match video)
July 10
1st Semi-final
Cigarroa 40 Peio Tellier (substituting for Lafitte) 11 (Trinquet Rekalde Facebook full match video)
Mano--Torneo Andra Mari Zuria (Virgen Blanca) (August 5, 6, 9, 2019)
Torneo Andra Mari Zuria (Virgen Blanca) (August 5, 6, 9)
ASPE player page (Ezkurdia, Irribarria, Martija, Rezusta, Zabaleta)
Baikopilota player page (Bengoetxea VI, Urrutikoetxea, Imaz, Albisu)
This tournament was played by 4 teams in a simple knockout format.
Baikopilota Results Page (with links to results back to 2002)
Bengoetxea VI won this tournament for the 4th time (2010, 2011, 2013, and 2019). Ezkurdia, who won this tournament in 2014 and 2015, is still looking for his 3rd Championship.
Cumulative statistics:
Bengoetxea +26 (including 4 service aces) -10; Imaz +3 -7
Ezkurdia +18(3a) -7; Imaz +0 -5
Urrutikoetxea +9(1a) -3; Albisu +1 -3
Irribarria +8(2a) -6; Rezusta +1 -2
August 9
FINAL
Ezkurdia-Martija (substituting for Zabaleta) 13 (EITB--match begins at 52:10)
Fronton TV Youtube (Castilian)
Condensed linescore (winners always listed 1st)
0-2; 2-2; 2-3; 3-3; 3-5; 7-5; 7-8; 12-8; 12-9; 16-9; 16-10; 20-10; 20-12; 21-12; 21-13; 22-13
Scoring (EITB)
Bengoetxea VI +12 (including 1 service ace) -5; Imaz +1 -4
Ezkurdia +4 -5; Martija +0 -4
Balls in play: 449: Bengoetxea VI 114; Imaz 115; Ezkurdia 107; Martija 113
Time of the match: 55:44
Match article (21Iguales.com)
Match article (Diario Vasco)
Match article (El Correo)
Match article (Mundo Deportivo)
Match article (Deia)
After his magnificent performance in the 2nd semi-final (see below), Ezkurdia had a strangely quiet match in the final. His offense was greatly missed as Bengoetxea VI, who outscored him by 8 points, was the story in this upset victory. All other statistics in the match were almost equal. A 13-2 run in mid match, which included one 5 and two 4 point runs, sealed the championship.
August 6
2nd Semi-final
Ezkurdia-Martija (substituting for Zabaleta) 22 Irribarria-Rezusta 12 (EITB--match begins at 1:10:00)
Condensed linescore (winners always listed 1st)
0-1; (68 ball point) 1-1; 1-3; 8-3; 8-5; 16-5; 16-7; 20-7 20-11: 21-11; 21-12; 22-12
Scoring (EITB)
Ezkurdia +14 -2 (including 3 service aces; Martija +0 -1
Irribarria +8(2a) -6; Rezusta +1 -2
Balls in play: 541: Ezkurdia 139; Martija 136; Irribarria 127; Rezusta 139
Time of the match: 60:21
Match article (21Iguales.com)
Ezkurdia dominated this match with +14 -2 and was key in an 8-0 run in mid-match that decided the outcome.
August 5
1st Semi-Final
Bengoetxea VI-Imaz 22 Urrutikoetxea-Albisu 16. No match video available.
Selected linescore (Deia) (winners always listed 1st)
1-0; 1-1; 1-2; 2-2; 3-2; 3-3; 4-3; 6-3; 6-6; 10-6; 10-7; 13-7; 13-8; 14-8; 14-10; 16-10; 16-15; 17-15; 17-16; 22-16
Scoring (Deia)
Bengoetxea VI +14 (including 3 service aces) -3; Imaz +2 -3
Urrutikoetxea +9(1a) -3; Albisu +1 -3
Match article (Deia)
Match article (21Iguales.com)
An excellent performance by Bengoetxea VI led his team to this win, but not without a battle. A 5 point run by U-A put the outcome in doubt, until it was met with an identical run by the winners to end the match.
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