John David Velez took the first of four slots offered to top campaigners in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala regional age-group tennis tournament after an impressive campaign in the early going of the 54-leg circuit.

A total of four players—one boy and one girl each from the 14- and 16-and-under categories—will be given three-month scholarship grants at the Macs Crankit Tennis Academy in Australia. The player must be a three-time champion in his/her category of any grouping in the PPS-PEPP tilt in Visayas and Mindanao legs.

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