The Spanish Under-17 Badminton Championship began this Friday in Granollers, drawing a significant contingent of athletes from the Huesca and Binéfar clubs. As diariodelaltoaragon.es reported, this tournament marks the first national youth competition of the current season.

Huesca and Binéfar athletes in the Under-17 draw

The tournament features a 64-player elimination bracket for individual events, with top-seeded players receiving a bye into the second round. In the boys’ singles category, Hugo Gállego, Pablo Ara, and Daniel Coronas are representing Huesca. Gállego, holding a 5/8 seed, will enter the competition in the second round, where he is set to face the winner of the opening match between Luis Domínguez and Alex Acevedo.

Coronas and Ara are scheduled to begin their campaigns in the first round. Coronas faces Alejandro González from Castilla-La Mancha, while Ara squares off against Madrid’s Martín Fenoll.

The girls’ singles field includes Huesca athletes Emma Nievedes, Aitana Tejeiro, and Alba Pérez, alongside Nerea Marco from Binéfar. Nievedes and Marco are slated for first-round matches against Daniella Ramírez and Irene Felipe, respectively. Pérez and Tejeiro have been granted byes into the round of 32.

Huesca players enter doubles brackets

Huesca’s representatives are also active in the doubles brackets. In the boys’ doubles, Ara and Coronas enter the round of 16 against the third and fourth-seeded pair of David Casa and Adrián Seijo. Hugo Gállego and his partner, Marco García of Navarre, begin in the previous round against Iker Bartolomé and Íñigo Jiménez.

The girls’ doubles features two pairs seeded 3/4. Aitana Teijeiro, playing with Andalusia’s Sandra Pastor, faces Nadia Alonso and Lucía Pérez in the round of 16. Alba Pérez and her partner, Alicia Brao of Murcia, open their tournament against Hanting Jian and Martina Molina from Valencia.

In the mixed doubles, Alba Pérez and partner Pablo Sanz are seeded 5/8, while Hugo Gállego and Sara Arenas hold a 3/4 seed. Both teams await their round-of-16 opponents, with Gállego and Arenas set to face Xoan Balboa and Xulia Otero.