Beer pulling Tennis champ

CHARO ESQUIVA , a tennis player from the Torrevieja Tennis Club has achieved an outstanding feat by proclaiming herself champion in both the individual and doubles categories in the 2023 Mapfre Spain Cadet Tennis Championship.

The individual final saw Charo Esquiva faced with the Asturian, Eugenia Menendez, in a match that lasted to three sets. In a closely contested match, Charo had to raise her level in the third set to end up winning with a final score of 61, 4­6, 6­2.

Later she was also crowned champion in the doubles competition. Charo, partner­ ing with Marta Pico from Alicante, defeated Ascanio and Azurza from the Canary Islands with a solid score of 6­4, 6­1 in the final.

With these two titles, Charo Esquiva has achieved her seventh Spanish championship in less than two years.

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ter has extolled the town’s gastronomy, highlighting its rice dishes.

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tered in 2022.

The special cleaning service will be maintained until June 30 so the city can return to normality next week.

Mayor, Manuel Villar, confirmed: “The fact that we have had to remove a thousand more tons of waste than in 2022 shows the volume of visitors that have been registered in these record­breaking bonfires with the presence in the streets of more than a million people daily.

“That is why I ask for your understanding if, at any point in the city, there are still cleaning tasks to be done.”

CARP-R-US fished Round 10 of their Spring Series on the Eden 2 stretch of the Rio Segura. This stretch has not been used for matches for some time due to flooding and problems with the reeds that line it, but after some hard work by club members the week before, sufficient pegs had been opened up for a match.

Water levels had dropped a lot since a visit two days before and dropped a further 20cms during the match, which makes presentation challenging at times. This did not stop Tony Flett running away with the match from the downstream end peg. Tony weighed in a creditable 10.28kg caught tight to the far bank using pole and maggots. Second from the peg 2 was Steve Fell who had 6.44kg on pole and bread caught fishing the far bank under the overhanging reeds. Third with his usual method feeder and pellet tactics was Willy Moons with 3.96kg and fourth was Jeremy Fardoe with 3.40kg.

Further information about the club can be found on its website www.carp­r­us.weebly.com or on the Facebook page CarpR­Us Fishing Costa Blanca.