Alagoas wins men’s title in BT 10 at Pure Beach

Last Sunday night, the last champions of Pure Beach were defined, at Praia do Frances, in Marechal Deodoro (AL). The tournament is one of the biggest in the world, a BT 400 with a prize pool of US$ 35 thousand, and 440 points in the ranking of the International Tennis Federation.

The Alagoan Eurico Cahu, number 209 in the world, celebrated his greatest achievement at home when he lifted the BT 10 tournament trophy. He and the Pernambuco native Fernando Albuquerque defeated the duo of Bahia Augusto Oliveira and Murilo Valadares by 1/6 6/4 10/ 7. He did not hide his emotion for the unprecedented achievement at home and the second in his career. In 2022 he was champion of the BT 10 of Teresina (PI): “The feeling is the best possible. Last year we lost in the semifinal, this year we managed to reach the final, a lot of emotion, playing at home, all with us, it’s inexplicable”, vibrated Eurico : “We started with a medium low intensity and in the second set we started better, we opened advantage, we managed and in the super tie-break we also opened advantage in the beginning”, he continued.

Albuquerque won his first ITF title in his career: “It was one of my goals to win an ITF title, I have to thank Eurico and the guys here at Marechal Deodoro”.

In the Mixed Doubles of the professional, Pedro Consiglio, took the trophy alongside Giovana Pedrini, also from Alagoas, beating the duo of Debora Amaro and Henri Lua in the final. In the women’s BT 10 tournament, the title went to Luisa Morais and Julia Gonçalves, who defeated Amanda Campos and Loana Oliveira in the final.

The competition, one of the largest in the world, had 1,341 athletes from twelve countries (Brazil, United States, Italy, Germany, Spain, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Portugal, France, Russia, Chile and Latvia).