Carlota Ciganda is emerging, after the first day of competition, as the top seed for the Copa SM La Reina title playoffs, an honor that will go to the highest-ranked player at the end of the second round.

The golfer from Navarre is currently leading the leaderboard in this first phase by a comfortable margin, having completed the first 18 holes in 69 strokes (3 under par), the only participant to surpass the La Reserva de Sotogrande course in this first contact with the Cadiz course.

Very solid at all times, Carlota Ciganda cemented her great performance especially in the first round, resolved with a birdie on the first hole that constituted the prelude to another 2 on holes 6 and 7.

At 3 under par at that moment, a convincing succession of pars, broken only by a bogey on the 14th – her only mistake on this first day – immediately compensated with a birdie on the 15th, led Carlota Ciganda to lead the classification despite the good performance of the large group of French women who occupy the top positions.

Among them, Alexandra Vilatte and Audrey Goumard stand out, tied for second with 73 strokes (1 over par), while their compatriots Isabelle Boineau and Lucie Andre are tied for fifth with 74.

The presence of San Sebastian native Ane Urchegui in fifth place with 74 strokes (with 2 fundamental birdies on holes 15 and 16 to cancel the pernicious effect of 2 bogeys and, above all, a double bogey on the 11th) was the other highlight of this first day of the Spanish Women's Amateur International, Copa SM La Reina.

At the end of the second round, a cut will be made at position 32, which will lead to the round of 16.

CLASSIFICATION (first day)
1.- Carlota Ciganda (Spain) 69
2.- Alexandra Vilatte (France) 73
+.- Audrey Goumard (France) 73
+.- Laura González-Escallón (Belgium) 73
5.- Ane Urchegui (Spain) 74
+.- Isabelle Boineau (France) 74
+.- Lucie Andre (France) 74
+.- Jacqueline Hedwell (Sweden) 74
+.- Josephine Jansson (Sweden) 74
+.- Kylie Walker (Scotland) 74
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