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NATIONAL players Johnny Arcilla and Patrick John
Tierro breezed past separate rivals on Tuesday to lead the
first-round winners in the 1st Gov. Anacleto C. Alcala Memorial Cup
National Open at the Lucena City Tennis Club.
The top-seeded Arcilla outclassed
Rocky Paglalunan, 6-4, 6-2, while the second-ranked Tierro
demolished qualifier Albert Cornelio, 6-0, 6-1.
Also gaining second-round berths
in the P150,000 tournament held in honor of the LCTC founder were
fifth seed Elbert Anasta and seventh seed Alexander Lazaro.
Anasta overwhelmed Archie Mano,
6-1, 6-3, while Lazaro demolished Jerry Pacaigue, 6-1, 6-0.
Antonio Sagansay also made it to
the next round following a 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Baguio
City’s Jimmy Tangalin, while Mario Sabas stamped his class over
local wild card Michael Yasay, 6-0, 6-1.
Wild card Mark Balce, who played
in the World Juniors Championships, needed an extra set to beat
qualifier Jonathan Imperial, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2, while Baguio City’s
Marvelous Cortez and Fil-Am Joseph Contreras also won their
opening-day matches.
Cortez downed fellow qualifier
Andrew Tangalin, 6-4, 6-2, and Contreras prevailed over Christopher
Muñoz, 6-1, 6-0.
In the women’s division, local
pride Bien Zoleta and former junior standout Trudy Amoranto scored
contrasting wins to advance in the next round of the Philta-sanction
event organized by Quezon Rep. Procy Alcala (Second District) and
Gov. Raffy Nantes.
The fourth-seeded Zoleta, who now
plays for the national soft tennis team, clobbered Shirley Valer,
6-1, 6-0, while Amoranto survived Baguio City’s Bianca Pascual,
7-5, 6-4.
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