Fourteen-year-old Mark Shelley Alcala shattered top seed Toby Gadi’s cloak of invincibility in the MVP Sports Foundation-PBaRs tournament, pulling off a shocking 21-14, 21-12 upset of the seven-time Open men’s singles division champion at Robinson’s Place Manila on Thursday.
Alcala played his guts out despite suffering from diarrhea on the day of the finale, battling the more experienced Gadi shot for shot and getting the better of the exchanges en route to fashioning out the biggest upset of the tournament sanctioned by the Philippine Badminton Association (PBA).
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