Tennis sensation

TORREVIEJA’S Charo Esquiva is officially the new sensation of Spanish tennis at just 15 years old.

The young tennis champ was eliminated in round 16 of the Roland Garros junior tournament but has left an incredible impression in Paris despite her young age.

She fought the definitive ‘tie break’ (0­6, 6­2 and 7­6) to get into the quarterfinals but the Dane, Rebecca Munk, ended up beating her after more than two hours and 13 minutes of a match that featured some phenomenal game playing.

Despite the defeat, the tennis player

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from Bigastro who belongs to the Torrevieja Tennis Club has received a lot of praise in a tournament with great media coverage in which she made her debut at just 15 years old.

The player is already within the top 40 of the ITF ranking, taking leaps and bounds in her career.

She will also play in the junior Wimbledon finals, as she scored enough points when she won the ITF Junior 500 in Offenbach in Germany which is one of the most important tournaments on the world junior circuit, only surpassed in importance by the four Junior Grand Slams.

SATURDAY, June 10, looked to be the long ­ awaited start of summer in Spain as temperatures hit the high 20s and also proved to be a bit trying for some of the members of the Torrevieja U3A Walk and Talk Group.

Thirty ­ four members of the group, formerly known as the Strollers Group, met for their last wander of the season before the weather becomes too hot for walking, and set off from near the Punta Prima restaurant on the Punta Prima promenade.

The group wandered along the shoreline through to Torrevieja just by the bars and restaurants backing onto the old Dialprix at Mar Azul.

They spent time relaxing