Galician Marta Silva lost 6/5 to England's Florentyna Parker in the grand final of the French Junior Women's International Championship, which was held at the Saint Cloud golf club.

The decisive duel, scheduled as a best-of-36-hole match, was dominated from the beginning by the English golfer, without Marta Silva ever managing to display that convincing and decisive game that characterized her during the previous phase and the successive elimination rounds in the post-title competition.

The player from Santiago de Compostela was fighting to extend to five the consecutive victories of the Spanish representatives in this competition, which has inscribed in its record the triumphs of María Hernández (2003), Elisa Serramiá (2004), Beatriz Recari (2005) and Carlota Ciganda (2006).

With those promising precedents and a series of solid performances in the previous rounds – with special mention for her victories in the quarterfinals and semifinals against the German Denise Becker and the Swedish Anna Dahlberg – Marta Silva could not, however, find the formula to compensate for the continuous successes of her rival in the grand final, who already took the lead in the partial score by overtaking the Galician on holes 3 and 4.

Another new run of inspiration from Florentyna Parker between holes 9 and 11 put Marta Silva 5 behind, a delicate situation that found, for once, compensation from the Compostela native, superior between holes 13 and 16, a turning point for new partial victories for the Englishwoman on holes 17 and 18.

With 3 down at the start of the second and final round, Florentyna Parker grew in confidence as she took advantage of Marta Silva's resistance giving way at every step until she completely sealed the victory on the 31st hole of this French Junior Women's International.

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Florentyna Parker (England) beats Marta Silva (Spain) 6/5