Gen. Santos City ace Klyde Lagarde hopes to live up to the hype as he banners the cast in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala Digos leg regional age group tennis tournament, which got under way in Davao del Sur on Thursday.

But Lagarde, one of the 10 recipients of the Macs Crankit Tennis Academy scholarship in Australia, faces a formidable set of challengers in both the boys’ 16- and 18-and-under divisions where he is the top seed and a host of talented players raring to foil his bid.

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