Sunday, December 24, 2006 Tabura, Lominoque stop pretenders, win doubles title
YLAC Tabura and Adonis Lominoque lived up to their lofty billing as they topped the 5th Eddie Tabura Memorial Cup Men’s Doubles Tournament yesterday at the Pardo Tennis Club, encountering little resistance from their challengers Janjie Soquiño and Oswaldo Dumoran.
Tabura and Lominoque overpowered Soquiño and Dumoran, 10-3, to pocket the P3,000 top purse.
Soquiño and Dumoran, who earned their finals ticket after upsetting the second-ranked duo of Bo Alburo and Michael Quiñones in the semis, lost steam in their final showdown, when they barely gave a good challenge against the top seeds.
“They were already anticipating that they would lose that is why they lost,” organizer Fritz Tabura said.
The game turned out to be a bore for a pack of young netters from the San Carlos Seminary pool of athletes, who went all the way to Pardo to watch the game.
Tabura and Lominoque kept their games intact, and banked mostly on the service errors of their opponents, whose performance was nowhere near that of their semifinals onslaught. In the semis, the runners-up razed Alburo and Quiñones, 10-7.
This is the first time Tabura and Lominoque won together. The two were once in the Top 16 of the RP Men’s doubles ranking. The last time they competed in a national event, they finished runner-up in the National Open in Bacolod City. They lost to topnotch players Johnny Arcilla and Joseph Victorino in that event. (MCB)
