Feliciano Lopez wins Corona Longest Serve for Charity at Valencia – Tennis News
World number 18, Feliciano Lopez of Spain won the Corona Longest Serve for Charity event at Valencia on Sunday, 30th October. Competing alongside Lopez was compatriot David Ferrer and Indian doubles specialist Rohan
Bopanna.
Serving for Charity, the professionals competed to see who served the ball the furthest. The professionals were competing on one of the lakes at the City of Arts and Sciences. Lopez won the competition with a serve of 70m winning
the prize money of two thousand Euros.
Playing for charity, Lopez donated his winnings to his compatriot and friend, Juan Carlos Ferrero’s foundation. Acknowledging his friend’s gesture, Ferrero said, “I really want to thank Feliciano for his help with my foundation.
We try to help children in need and I am actually not surprised he won because his shoulder is double the size of ours.”
Lopez further added, “It’s nice to take part in different activities and I had never served for distance before. I really had a good time and I am very happy to be able to help Juan Carlos and his foundation with it.”
Ferrer was reported to have said that he was not surprised that Lopez won. He jokingly added that next year he would like to bring the hard hitting Croat giant, Ivo Karlovic and then win against him.
Defending champion here, Ferrer looks to successfully defend his title at Valencia this week and add to the season tally before heading off to the O2 Arena in London for the season ending, Barclays ATP World Tour Finals where he
will compete alongside the elite eight of men’s tennis including Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. The remaining three spots for London are yet to be filled.
Also hoping to end the season on a positive note, the eighth seeded Lopez looks to improve his ranking by making it to the final four or further this week.
Joining Lopez and Ferrer at Valencia as the second seed is the Vienna champion, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Also returning to Valencia is the Vienna finalist, Juan Martin Del Potro. With a field full of talented professionals, Valencia
offers a week full of enthralling competition.
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