Frontenis/Paleta Goma--Federation Internacional de Pelota Vasca (FIPV): X Campeonato del Mundo Sub-22 (30 Meter Fronton) (September 29-October 5, 2019

The Federacion Internacional de Pelota Vasca (FIPV) sponsored the X (10th) Campeonato del Mundo Sub-22 (30 meter fronton) (September 29-October 5, 2019)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands 

Real Club Nautico (1) Circulo (2 ?) 

2 modalities were contested in this competition: Paleta Goma (rubber ball paleta) and Frontenis. Men's and women's competitions were held in each modality. 9 nations competed: Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and the United States. Spain finished 1st overall, Mexico 2nd, and France 3rd. The entire competition was played in open air 30 meter frontons.

84 photos of the French team in action (Federation Francaise de Pelota Basque-- FFPB)

Final Table (.pdf format, 2p., FFPB). Note: Spain won the Championship due to a better game score record in the 4 finals against Mexico: 5-4. The two countries split the 4 championships. 

Competition Context for all (click on any tournament to access complete results). Click on any country in any competition to access player information (mostly just the names of the players at this time). Click on "standings and calendar" to access those variables.

Match articles

The best part of this tournament, from the point of view of a Basque Pelota fan, was the terrific video coverage. 26 matches including all Semi-finals, Paleta Cuero 3rd Place matches, and all Finals (14 matches) were included in the coverage. It is a feast, particularly for fans of these two modalities. 

As usual, with a post that covers this many matches, if you wish to follow the tournament in chronological order, read from the bottom up.

Note: all video links below will be to the beginning of the referenced match. Source for all videos is LaLiga4Sports via FIPV Youtube. Video links from the dates are to the entire video for that date, not necessarily in order of the individual matches linked.

All matches listed below were played at Nautico.

October 5

Video: Running Time: 3:50:07

WOMEN'S AND MEN'S FRONTENIS

FINALS

Women's Frontenis (pairs) 

Mexico (M. Noriega-X. Placito 2 

Spain (I. Ruiz-L. Perez)  0

(15-6, 15-14) (30-20)

Men's Frontenis (pairs) 

Mexico (Y. Hernandez-J. Raya) 2 

Spain (G. Vidal-G. Hernandez) 1

(12-15, 15-13, 10-8) (37-36)

3RD PLACE MATCHES (No video coverage)

Women's Frontenis (Pairs) 

Peru (N. Paredes-M. Rodriguez) 2 

France (A. Etchepare-N. Bercetche)  0

(15-6, 15-1) (30-7)

Men's Frontenis (Pairs) 

France (M. Pucheux-A. Beau) 2 

Cuba (F. Gomez-A. Aguirre) 1

(14-15, 15-10, 10-2) (39-27)

Match articles for all 4 matches (FIPV)

October 4

Video: Running Time: 3:19:14

WOMEN'S AND MEN'S PALETA GOMA

FINALS

Women's Paleta Goma (singles) 

Spain (L. Simon) 2 

Mexico (L. Puentes) 0

(15-13, 15-3) (30-16)

Men's Paleta Goma (singles) 

Spain (G. Vidal) 2 

Mexico (J. Becera) 0

(15-8, 15-4) (30-12)

3RD PLACE MATCHES

Women's Paleta Goma (singles) 

Argentina (S. Andrade) 2 

France (M. Guillenteguy) 0

(15-9, 15-4) (30-13)

Men's Pelota Goma (singles) 

Cuba (F. Gomez) 2 

Argentina (N. Berruezo) 1

(14-15, 15-10, 10-9) (39-34) 

Match articles for all 4 matches 

October 3

Video 1: Paleta Goma singles: Running Time: 2:49:04

Final League Tables

Final Women's Paleta Goma Singles Group A Table

Mexico 3-0

Argentina 2-1

Cuba 1-2

Peru 0-3

Final Women's Paleta Goma Singles Group B Table

Spain 3-0

France 2-1

United States 1-2

Chile 0-3

Final Paleta Goma Men's singles Group A Table

Mexico 3-0

Argentina 2-1

France 1-2

Costa Rica 0-3

Final Paleta Goma Men's singles Group B Table

Spain 4-0

Cuba 3-1

Peru 2-2

Chile 1-3

United States 0-4

1. Women's Pelota Goma (singles) (Semi-final) 

Mexico (L. Puentes) 2 

France (N. Ocafrain) 0 

(15-8, 15-1) (30-19)

2. Men's Pelota Goma  (Semi-final)

Mexico (J. Becera) 2 

Cuba (F. Gomez) 0

(15-4, 15-8) (30-12)

3. Women's Pelota Goma (singles) (Semi-final)

Spain 2 (L. Simon)

Argentina (S. Andrade) 0

(15-12, 15-10) (30-22)

4. Men's Pelota Goma (singles) (Semi-final)

Spain (G. Vidal) 2 

Argentina (F. Fernandez) 0

(15-8, 15-9) (30-17)

Final Women's pairs Frontenis Group A Table

Mexico 3-0

Peru 2-1

Cuba 1-2

Argentina 0-3

Final Women's pairs Frontenis Group B Table

Spain 3-0

France 2-1

Chile 1-2

United States 0-3

Final Men's pairs Frontenis Group A Table

Spain 3-0

Mexico 2-1

Argentina 1-2

Chile 0-3

Final Men's pairs Frontenis Group B Table

France 4-0

Cuba 3-1

Peru 2-2

United States 1-3

Costa Rica 0-4

1. Women's Frontenis (pairs) (Semi-final)

Mexico (X. Placito-M. Noriega) 2  

France (C. Couture-N.Bercetche) 0

(15-1, 15-8) (30-9)

2. Men's Frontenis (pairs) (Semi-final)

Mexico (R. Ortiz-Y. Hernandez) 2 

France (M. Pucheux-A. Beau) 0

(15-8, 15-5) (30-13)

3. Women's Frontenis (pairs) (Semi-final)

Spain (L. Perez-I. Ruiz) 2 

Peru (N. Paredes-M. Rodriguez) 0

(15-4, 15-11) (30-15)

4. Mens Frontenis (pairs) (Semi-final)

Spain (G. Escobar-G. Vidal) 2 

Cuba (F. Gomez-A. Aguirre) 0

(15-4, 15-5) (30-9)

Group Matches

Note: Full match video is available only for Spanish Group matches, as LaLiga4Sports is a Spanish broadcaster.

October 2 (Jornada 3)

Video: Selected full match videos: Running time: 4:23:27

1. Men's Paleta Goma (singles) 

Spain 2 United States 0

(15-2, 15-3) (30-5)

2. Women's Pelota Goma (singles) 

Spain 2 France 0

(15-9, 15-11) (30-20)

3. Men's Pelota Goma (singles) 

Spain 2 Chile 0  

(15-2, 15-4) (30-6)

4. Women's Frontenis (pairs) 

Spain 2 France 0

(15-5, 15-5) (30-10)

5. Men's Frontenis (pairs) 

Spain 2 Mexico 1

(13-15, 15-11, 10-5) (38-31)

October 1 (Jornada 2)

Video: Selected full match videos: Running time: 3:09:58

1. Women's paleta goma (singles) 

Spain 2 Chile 0

(15-3, 15-3) (30-6)

2. Men's paleta goma (singles) 

Spain 2 Peru 0

(15-14, 15-6) (30-20)

3. Women's frontenis (pairs) 

Spain 2 Chile 0

(15-5, 15-2) (30-7)

4. Men's Frontenis (pairs) 

Spain 2 Argentina 0

(15-10, 15-13) (30-23)

September 30 (Journada 1)

Video: Selected full match videos, Running time: 1:05:31

1. Women's paleta goma (pairs) 

Spain 2 United States 0

(15-3, 15-5) (30-8)

2. Women's frontenis (pairs) 

Spain 2 United States 0

(15-3, 15-2) (30-5)

September 29

Opening Ceremonies

September 29 (Jornada 1)

Men's paleta goma (singles)

Spain 2 Cuba 0

(15-8, 15-5) (30-13)

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

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

Recap of all winners and scores (Mundo

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

Martinez (Peru) 2 Osorio (Argentina) 0

(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)

North Basque--FFPP 2018 Annual Report--a Hidden Result Archive Treasure Chest

On March 30, 2019, the Federation Francaise de Pelote Basque (FFPB) released its 2018 ASSEMBLEE GENERALE ORDINAIRE EXERCICE (.PDF FORMAT, 145P.) It is the standard "annual report" of the Federation, the oldest Basque Pelota Federation in the world (1921). For more on the Federation's history click here. Among its many responsibilities is the organization of the North Basque Country's many national competitions in various modalities (Main Nue, various forms of Paleta Pelote and Pala, Cesta Punta/Grand Chistera, Joko Garbi, Pasaka, Rebote, Frontenis, and Frontball). These sports are played on Trinquets; 30, 36, and 54 meter Frontons Mur a Gauche  (1) (2); and outside on Frontons Place Libre. The non-crash helmet Paleta sports and Frontenis are played by men and women). Most of the sports are amateur but FFPB also organizes Cesta Punta and Main Nue competitions that are played by professionals. 

Most of these competitions are split into age groups from "Poussins" (the youngest) to National A and B. It is a large responsibility to organize all these things and the AGOE is the annual summary of FFPB's activities.

Within this report is a hidden treasure for fans of the sports who want to keep up with the results. This can be done by consulting the FFPB's competition databases, which track back to 2016-17 and have complete results of the competitions. But it takes a little work and it is easy to retrieve much more information than needed.

On P. 8-24 of the 2018 Exercice is a simple listing of the championship final results in the national competitions the FFPB sponsors. I wish I would have found out about this sooner. It would have saved me hours of research. 

The 2018 Exercice was published in 2019. The FFPB, on a single page (scroll to "Assemblee Generale" for any of the years 2018-2012--covering the years 2017-2011), click on the "Assemblee Generale" links, and presto, you have an archive (all .pdf format) of championship results for the past 7 years. It is a magnificent, easily accessible archive. And one I plan on using, constantly, from now on. 

Multiple Modalities: South Basque: One Major Amateur Competition Ends as Another Begins

The EEPF Euskal Herriko Kluben/CPTO. de EH. de Clubes competition, featuring 25 tournaments in 8 modalities (Eskuz indivdual and pairs, Pala Motza,  Pala Goma, Paleta Goma, Larruzko Paleta, Zesta Punta, and Frontenis) began on January 28, 2017 and ended the weekend of March 10-12, 2017. The premiere South Basque amateur competition, the Gravni Competition, began on March 11, and will end with finals on April 30.

EITB televised the finals of two EHK competitions, the Ezkuz Individual Juvenile and Pairs Senior Division.

Source for all scores and match articles: EEPF

Preview finals article

Final results article 2017 EHK/CPTO.de EH. with links to finals results (Spreadsheet format)

Photo Gallery for finals. (Added March 15, 2017).

March 10, 2017

Lakua, Vitoria-Gasteiz (1)(2)

Individual Juvenile Final:

Ultzama (Gascue--red) defeated Zabala (Zazpi Iturri--blue) 22-9

Senior Division Pairs Final:

Pagazpe (Santxo-Altuna--blue) defeated Ilunpe (Alberdi-Uzkudun--red) 22-21

Match article for both matches

Full match video (EITB). Individual match is the first match, Senior final begins at 39:44 on the video

The senior final was a 71 minute struggle that had 4 lead changes from 18-18, a terrific way to finish the night.

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The Gravni competition, which runs from March 11 - April 30, 2017, is a provincial tournament involving players from Gipuzkoa, La Rioja, Araba, Bizkaia, Nafarroa and Iparralde (North Basque Country).The competition includes 15 modalities on mur a gauche and trinquet for men and women.

Preview article. See the reglamento document (.pdf format, 14p.) for details on the modalities and competition.

Preview article (pilota-ttiki.com). This article discusses aspects of North Basque Country participation in the Gravni competition.

To follow the competitions as they happen (or to recap the EHK results) go to the EEPF competition page. Click on competitions of interest and a drop down menu will appear. Click on any of the competitions and any phase from "Liga" to "Final". "Calendarios and "Calendarios de Resultados" are available in HTML and spreadsheet format. Gravni competitions will appear in the blog when there is match video.

Euskadiko Euskal Pilota Federakuntza (EEPF) Club competitions begin

Euskadiko Euskal Pilota Federakuntza (EEPF) has announced the beginning of its 2017 Club competitions. Club competitions began January 12, 2017 and will end for most competitions on March 12. Competitions will be at the cadete, juvenil, sub-22, and senior level in the modalities of mano singles and doubles, paleta goma men's and women's, paleta cuero, pala corta, frontenis, and cesta punta. Women's paleta goma (juvenil and senior) semi-finals will be held January 21, with finals to be held January 28.

EEPF Announcement (with attached schedule files in Microsoft Excel format)

To follow results of individual competitions: Click on "CPTO. DE EH. DE CLUBES". A drop down menu of each of the individual competitions will appear. Click on any of them to open that competition. Click on "Calendario" for the schedule and "Calendario de Resultados" for results. All competitions (except the paleta goma listed above) will begin with league phases, followed by playoffs and finals. Calendarios are available in HTML and Microsoft Excel formats. It is unknown at this time if any of these competitions will have match videos on EITB or elsewhere. If playoff phases are televised, they will be linked to in the blog.

Mutiple Modalities--The amateur scene regional and national scene in the North Basque at the end of 2016.

Several regional tournaments in various modalities were completed before the end of 2016. The easiest way to find them is a specialized lookup at pelotelive.free.fr.

Click on "Voir" to look at any of the competitions. Cut and paste the Organization name or abbreviation along with "pelota" and do a google search in order to link to the regional organizations that sponsor these tournaments. The Federation Francais de Pelote Basque (FFPB) also has a listing (unfortunately not live linked at present) of the major regional organizations.

For regional competitions with match videos another specialized search of PFF will retrive most of them. Click on "voir" and search for matches with the film icon.

With the beginning of the new year the FPPB National Championnat de France competitions begin in earnest. The easiest way to follow them is the Calendar at FPPB.

Check results at FFPB or at PFF.  As these tournaments come on line, there are likely to be match videos. Watch the media box for a film icon.

Following any of the amateur competitions in the North Basque Country may seem daunting, but a little creative use of PPF or FFPB results pages will go a long way toward enjoying the feast of North Basque amateur competition that takes place through the winter and spring months.

Multiple Modalities-- FIPV VI Copa del Mundo

The Federación Internacional de Pelota Vasca held its VI Copa del Mundo November 20-26, 2016, It was a 30 meter court specialty tournament held in Santiago, Chile. Tournaments were held for men and women in Paleta Goma and Frontenis. Frontenis is a modality that hasn't been covered in this blog before now.

Basics of Frontenis

18 countries participated.

FIPV VI Copa del Mundo competition contexts and day by day match articles:

Fixtures:

Results:

Finals: Full match videos (Vivo Sport)

Mexico won 3 competitions. France won 1.

1. Women's Frontenis--Mexico v Spain  (0:00-1:20:00)
2. Men's Paleta Goma--Mexico v Argentina (1:20:00-2:05:12)
3. Women's Paleta Goma--France v Argentina (2:05:12-3:17:02)

Interview with Maritxu Chapelet-Husset and Amaia Etchelecu, winners of the women's Paleta Goma Championship (Pilota Ttiki) (Added December 6, 2016)

Women's Paleta Goma Semi-Final--France v Mexico (FIPV) (Added December 7, 2016)

4. Men's Frontenis--Mexico v France (3:17:02-3:55:01)
5. Closing Ceremony--(3:55:01-4:42:38)

Other Full match videos (FIPV)

Other Full match videos (Vivo Sport)

20 separate matches plus Opening cermonies (Marcello Baumann Youtube site (Added December 11, 2017)

The Vivo sport videos are better for keeping score of the matches you are interested in, but not labeled particularly well.

Final medal table