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Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net.
Basque pelota fronton diagram 1: Side wall; 2: Front wall; 3:Ground; 4: Perspective view (lower and upper zones in blue). There are two main types of frontons, the first one being the single-wall fronton, prevalent on the eastern Basque Country, while two-wall frontons are typically located in present-day Basque Autonomous Community, a large part of Navarre, and La Rioja.
Capacity. 950. Field size. 32m. Opened. 14 February 1890. The Beotibar fronton is a short fronton located in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa. The fronton is mainly dedicated to hand-pelota and it was home of the 1958 and the 1962 1st Hand-Pelota singles championships as of 1962, 1965, 1970, 1971 and 2009 editions of 2nd Hand-Pelota singles championship.
The main modalities played in the fronton are Hand-pelota and Paleta-rubber. Despite that Ogueta has a bigger capacity than Atano III , were played only two 1st Hand-pelota championship finals. It's the usual fronton used for the Doubles-pelota and Cuatro y Medio championships.
The Astelena fronton, nicknamed Cathedral of Basque Hand-pelota, is a fronton located in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. Astelena is a short 41 meter-long fronton where hand-pelota and pala modalities are played. The field has a width of 11 m, and the wall a height of 9 m. It was inaugurated in 1904 and has been renovated ...
Administrator. FIPV. Current champion. Spain (9th title) The Basque Pelota World Championships is a quadrennial tournament first organized in 1952 by the International Federation of Basque Pelota. The modern championships crown the best amateur players in fifteen different playing categories.
1st Hand-Pelota doubles championship 2006, 2007 Pedro Martínez de Eulate Maestresalas , know also as Martínez de Eulate or Eulate (born 17 August 1979), is a Basque pelota player of hand modality, plays on defense, winner of two doubles tournaments .
Opened. 5 April 1931. Closed. October 2011. The Deportivo fronton is a Basque pelota fronton, used mainly in the modalities of hand-pelota, short bat, long bat, pala and paleta. It is located in Bilbao and owned by the local municipality. The 52-metre-long facility closed to the public in 2011 [ 1] (it is still used by the sports club based ...