The President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, announced this Thursday that the training will be held open to the media 'Region of Valencia Tennis Challenge ' this weekend in Benitachell. It is the first sports training for professional tennis players broadcast by national and international television to be held in our country during the state of alarm in Spain.
This training, which will be held behind closed doors, between June 5 and 7, at the Cumbre del Sol Urbanization in Benitachell, will involve four elite tennis players settled in the Valencian Community: Álex de Miñaur, Pablo Andújar; Roberto Bautista and Pablo Carreño. The matches will begin at 16:30 p.m. on the 5th and at 13:30 p.m. on the 6th and 7th.
According to the head of the Consell, tennis is a sport with associated values such as "coexistence and respect", which, in your opinion, "they will be fundamental for the future of this society", Like "unit".
Puig has made these statements to the media at the presentation of this sporting event, in which he has been accompanied by the General Director of Tourism, Herick Campos; the general director of Sport, Josep Miquel Moya; the provincial sports deputy of the Alicante deputation, Bernabé Cano; and the international tennis players Roberto Bautista, Pablo Andújar and Álex de Miñaur.
Likewise, the head of the Consell has highlighted "the extraordinary sports participation" of the Valencian Community, which, in his words, and in the case of tennis, means that the Valencian Tennis Federation is "one of those with the highest implementation of practitioners and fans throughout Spain. "
Tourism and sport
For the head of the regional government, regarding the union of sport and tourism, with the holding of tennis training behind closed doors but with television broadcasting "We are sending a very clear signal to the world and that is that the Valencian Community will be open this summer and there will be a tourist season". In this sense, it has encouraged Valencians to enjoy their holidays "after the great effort" performed during confinement.
Ximo Puig has stated that, for the way out of the situation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, for "the search for light at the end of the tunnel", elements such as sports and tourism must be included, since it involves "reunite with people and seek new horizons".
In this sense, the General Director of Tourism, Herick Campos, has highlighted the opportunity offered by holding this training open to the media. "to put the Valencian Community and its Mediterranean on the map live and safe" at a time when markets "National and international" they are marking the opening of the tourist season.
Thus, the person in charge of Tourism has stressed the importance of showing the image of "a Community that is underway" so that the people who are going to travel "and they are now searching for a destination to spend their holidays choose the option to visit us"He concluded.
