It has not been the simplest season for both. Perhaps in his mind things were different, but there are times that reality causes them to change their road map so that the future is better. Something like this has happened to the new first male couple of the Spanish beach volleyball. The Cadiz Adrian Gavirafor his physical problems and his recent paternity, he could not be in the first months of competition, and the Tenerife Alejandro Huerta He could only wait for him. A wait worthwhile or that seems later DThe level given in the Higuerón Resort last week where they won the 2025 Spanish Championship. His first title together.
Before we started, if we reached 15 in some set, it was an achievement and fell in the Trebreak in both games
ASK. It has been a little complicated season for both of us. How has this 2025 been managed?
Adrian Gavira. It is being a complicated season, fighting with my injury: a wear of the cartilage, which have already told me that little can be done … we are there trying to play with treatments, with a lot of physical training and see if we get to answer the quadriceps, which is my biggest problem. As a team, Álex the truth that with great patience. Training hard, which is what you have to do. He knows that it is the role that touches him. And nothing, hoping that I take a step forward in this recovery to grow as a team.
Alejandro Huerta. At first we did the preseason together and everything seemed to go forward, but finally with Adrián's injury we had to divert the roads a bit. I continued my preparation playing with my brother some tournaments, I also played others with Joaquín Bello and well, in the end I continued preparing, waiting for the moment I was ready to be able to be in the best conditions. Now it seems that we are playing again together as a team and we are slowly starting, very happy for it.
Alejandro Huerta and Adrián Gavira posing after one of their victories in the 2025 Spanish Championship at the Resort Higuerón
Q. Remaking that Kings of the Court, your first competition was directly the European. How did you see?
A.G. The European sensations the truth that were very positive because I faced that tournament only training a week and a half in sand, which is very little. In the end, people at the end of July have a lot of rhythm and we had not played any official tournament as a team that year. There are many combinations that were against but, I already tell you, very happy because in both games against hard rival teams, we made our face. Before we started, if we reached 15 in some set, it was an achievement and fell in the Trebreak in both games. So very happy.
Q. It is true that you learned quite fast. A short time later, in the Baden Challenge you got a good result. What changed in such a short time?
A.G. I think the trust I am trying to have Álex in itself. He is a very good player. You have to believe it more because the truth is that it has spectacular conditions. And that is what we are trying to him. We had a talk after Baden's first game that we lost and then shows that Alex is a special player. In just one day he did what we asked, enjoy, take that tension. That respect that has me as a player, knows that we are both a team. I am not Adrián Gaviria and he Álex Huerta, but is Huerta-Gavira. We have to throw both. And the truth that assumed it, assumed it very well and made a very big leap.
A.H. It was time to start but we arrived a little fair in the times. Adrián, the first training he did with team was there, the day before playing, and the expectations were not the highest, but we did a good role in what was the European. We compete with all the teams we play with. Yes, it is true that because of the results that were given, we would have liked to have won some more game, but hey, we were wanting much more.
Álex is very similar to me on a day -to -day basis. He is very predisposed to train, to give everything and make sacrifices, I am very comfortable with him
Q. Now that it does not listen to us, how was that change from Herrera to Huerta? I imagine there are different things inside the couple …
A.G. Yes, it is very different. In the end he is a younger player. With Pablo after 16 seasons … Well, everything was very fluid. With just one look we already knew what the other thought. With a celebration we knew what I wanted. And that complicity, that feeling That was inside the field, it is difficult to change another partner now. Álex the truth is that everything does very simple. It is very similar to me on a day -to -day basis. He is very predisposed to train, to give everything and to make sacrifices, I am very comfortable with him. The truth is that change is always difficult after so many years, but doing it with Álex has been more bearable.
Q. I imagine that I had to give you rage that 18-16 in Badén. You had nothing to pass to the quarterfinals …
A.G. In the end they are two points. Those are the conversations we have had with Álex. He told Fran and me that I felt that the tie-breaks For us because in the European we also lost I believe that 19-17 a game and another 18-16. We cannot let ourselves be carried away only by a two -point difference. If you win everything is perfect and if you lose everything is why. The work is there. You have to know that it surrendered, an 18-16 in the Tie-Brek, to lose against the Olympic champions I think it is very big. Very positive for the team. Very positive for him. And well, do you annoy? It is very positive for the team. It is a symptom that it is growing.
A.H. It was a tournament that we went from less to more, we went through difficult times and then we took better sensations until we played against a fairly powerful team and have a game balls that finally fell on the other side. Now we are working on that, in which more opportunities such as that can be given and try to fall on our side.
Antonio Saucedo attacking the hands of Alejandro Huerta's block and the watchful eye of Adrián Gavira waiting to defend in the semifinals of the Spanish Championship of Volleyo Playa 2025
Q. How do you carry that weight of being the first couple in Spain? Adrián, you have been taking it for a long time; But Álex, for you it is something new …
A.G. Well then. He also does not think if we are the first team, the second, the third or the fifth. In the end, the interesting thing for us is to play and make results. We are never comparing ourselves with the second team in Spain. What we want is to play, enjoy and that things do well. And for that we train. I think time is missing, more than Alex I think it's my thing. If we manage to recover my leg, the team is going to make a very large leap.
A.H. That's right, I don't have it in mind all day, vice versa, I'm trying to be better every day so that the team is better. In that aspect then happy, but it is not that it is giving a lot of ball to that this is the first team.
Q. How was the Spanish championship to win?
A.G. It cost us to enter the first game. With a very bad first set. But well, I think we have gone from less to more and it has helped us to continue growing as a team. For that we came. We signed up at the last moment because we were going to the Hamburg elite, but we decided that we were not yet at that level to fight. And we decided to come here for that. To feel that pressure, play with that pressure and take pace.
Being the most championships? That is anecdotal. I never compare with any player and less with Pablo
Q. You have surpassed Pablo Herrera as the player with the most Spanish championships.
A.G. That is anecdotal. With Pablo … I never compare myself with any player and less with Pablo. In the end, it's my brother. It is still my brother, even if I don't play with him anymore. And that feeling … We have seen each other in Fuengirola after that farewell they did in September, which was the last time we saw each other and as if time had not passed. We hugged each other and chatting as if we saw each other every day. I don't care to have one, two, three or more or less than Pablo. I don't care that.
Q. Has something told you to say?
A.G. No, nothing. In the end, advice of what you see. You know that I am going through a bad time. That he has already lived it with the injuries, that I am in a complicated process, in a gap that I want to leave and that every time I want to leave it seems that they throw more land on me because the knee begins to annoy and return to the exit box. But well, there giving me some council. That is patient and keep giving cane.
Here we are always going to fight for the maximum, so it has been a pleasure to lift the trophy again
Q. In your case, Álex already knew what it is to win here a Spanish championship, such as 2023. I do not know if you think it is a luxury to celebrate it in this fig tree where, above all, Adrián yes that you have also seen the evolution of this test …
A.H. The facilities are getting more and more improving, they are getting more beautiful, the environment is always very good here … there is nothing to reproach. In addition, the new area they have put for physiotherapy, decoration, the VIP area with the ceiling and garden, everything is quite well organized and congratulate those who make this possible, that the truth is a pleasure to always play here. Here we are always going to fight for the maximum, so it has been a pleasure to lift the trophy again.
A.G. Yes, it is growing. Years ago we saw a great improvement with the construction of the stands, which was a large jump, and this year is more colorful. The Higuerón Resort is meaning of great quality. A magnificent hotel with enviable beach volleyball facilities.
