Nov 23, 2024 10:17 PM IST
The certified midwife from Japan and her Spanish accomplice eased previous India’s Sharmada and Prerna within the semis
On the face of it, Kotomi Ozawa and Elisabeth Nogueras Lorenz type the unlikeliest of pairs. Kotomi, the 26-year-old Japanese tennis fanatic turned padel beginner is a professional midwife who has attended to numerous ladies and newborns in her three-year nursing profession. Lorenz, one other tennis beginner who’s making an attempt to eke out a profession in padel, holds a Masters in Enterprise Administration who needed to stop her high-paying finance job in Spain to check the uncertainties of the game she loves.
India Padel Open: Kotomi-Elisabeth pair in ladies’s last
On the ongoing FIP Promotion India Padel Open – an initiative by the worldwide physique to take the game to new geographies – the duo that got here collectively solely in February placed on a superlative show to beat India’s Sharmada Balu and Prerana Prathap 6-1, 6-2. Kotomi and Elisabeth will face Spaniards Ainize Santamaria Landa and Aitana Solan Domenech within the ladies’s doubles last on Sunday. The latter served a double bagel to the Indo-Irani duo of Tulsi Mehta and Banafsheh Shahpar.
“It was a good game. I think we executed our strategies well and we hope to continue the momentum in the final,” stated Kotomi. Hailing from Shizuoka close to Mount Fuji in Japan, Kotomi grew up aspiring to play skilled tennis. Throughout her college years although, she tried her hand at padel and immediately fell in love with the game that marries squash and garden tennis and is performed on courts round half the scale of a tennis courtroom.
“I liked the dynamics and the style. It took me some time to adjust to its rhythm because the body was used to react differently. I had to get used to the corners and the glasses, but once I unlearned the tennis habits, it became easier,” Kotomi, who has competed in worldwide meets in Australia, Spain, England, Sweden, Italy, Indonesia and Singapore, says.
A baseliner throughout her tennis days, Kotomi is joyful to station herself near the online in padel whereas Elisabeth does many of the retrieving from the again courtroom. With a decade of expertise behind her in padel-crazy Spain, Elisabeth hopes to show skilled quickly. A title on Sunday may simply be the catalyst she wants.
Finals line-up:
Ladies’s
Ainize Santamaria Landa – Aitana Solan Domenech (Spain) vs Kotomi Ozawa (Japan) – Elisabeth Lorenz (Spain)
Males’s
Pol Alsina – Edu Altimires Ros (Spain) vs Arthur Hugounenq – Thomas Seux (France)
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