Thursday, April 19, 2007
Not good enough
THE Filipino Junior tennis team bungled its opening day assignment in the Asia/Oceania qualifying event of the World Junior Tennis competition yesterday at the R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi India.
The RP team, top-billed by Cebuano Bernardine Niño Siso, lost to Indonesia, 0-3.
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“The boys lost but they played well. It was a long nine-hour fight,” said head coach Mateo Ferrer through a text message to his wife Net that was relayed to Sun.Star Cebu.
Juan Lorenzo Ferrer lost 6-7, 4-6 to R. Saputra in a match that lasted for two and a half hours.
Siso was second to succumb to the Indons as he bowed to L. Theodore, 4-6, 6-3, 2-6, in another two-and-a-half hour match.
Ferrer attributed the boys’ loss to the intense temperature in India, which caused Siso to have a nose-bleed in the second set of his match.
“It is very hot here. It’s under 40 degrees but the boys are coping,” said Ferrer.
Later, in the doubles event, Ferrer and RP third man Alvee Villamor, lost to the same Indon contenders in a three-setter, 3-6, 6-4,5-7.
The two were already at match point, when the Indons rallied to catch up and take the next two games to win the match.
The team was set to take on Australia at press time last night.
17 teams
The World Junior Tennis competition, which started in 1991, is an international team competition for players aged 14-Under.
This year’s competition attracted 17 boys team from all over Asia and Oceania. The teams will be competing for the four qualifying spots for the World Juniors Finals in Prostejov on Aug. 6-11. (MCB)
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