Top seed Shunsuke Mitsui of Japan and No. 2 Arthur Pantino sustained their awesome forms to ease out their respective semifinal rivals in emphatic fashions yesterday and forge an explosive showdown for the boys’ singles title in the Phinma-PSC Juniors Tennis Championships Week I at the Manila Polo Club in Forbes Park on Saturday.

Mitsui clobbered Indonesian No. 4 Odeda Arazza, 6-1, 6-1, minutes after the Filipino ace smothered third ranked Taiyo Yamanaka, also of Japan, 6-1, 6-2, completing the top two players’ romps from elims to the finals of the Group 4 ITF (International Tennis Federation) 18-and-under event sponsored by the Philippine Investment Management Consultants (Phinma) and Technifiber and sanctioned by the Philippine Tennis Association (Philta).

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