Coffee Cups Celebrate Tennis and Beauty
Tennis players An-Sophie Mestach and Hugo Dellien, Belgian and Bolivian respectively and both aged 17, won the recent 47th Tennis Coffee Cup.
To reach her position of glory, Meastach beat French competitor Carolina Garcia 6-4, 7-5 during the women’s final, which brought her to third ranking on the FIT youth world scale. Likewise, Dellien put on a strong performance against his fellow finalist, Bjorn Fratangelo from the US, winning 6-2, 6-4 in the men’s final.
The Coffee Cup is reported to have become an important contest for talented young stars, many of which later turn professional – examples including Roger Federer, Ivan Landl and Guillermo Vilas of Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Argentina respectively. Now viewed as one of the most key FIT youth tournaments across the globe, The Coffee Cup is also the first event of the tennis season.
In other competition news, Sophinel Báez from the Dominican Republic recently look the crown in the International Queen of Coffee 2011 (or Reina Interacional del Café 2011) beauty pageant in the Colombian city of Manizales. Twenty-two years of age and hailing from Santo Domingo, Báez is already a professional model and last year also represented her country in the Miss International 2010 beauty contest in Chengdu, China.
This year, 23 women from America and parts of Europe were entered into the International Queen of Coffee 2011 event, which is consistently the first such commented pageant of the year. Báez, this year’s winner, received her crown from the reigning Mariana Notarangelo.