Thursday, March 06, 2008 Prince All-Students tennis tourney adds new division
THE Prince All Students tennis tournament will add a new division in the competition which starts this Saturday at the Alta Vista tennis courts.
Tournament director Fritz Tabura said Prince had agreed to add the elementary division in the competition, which will run from March 8 to 9 and 15 to 16.
“This will be the first time the elementary division will be played in the All Students competition,” said Tabura, who is also Prince’s head coach for Cebu and is a Philippine Tennis Association-accredited coach and tournament director.
The Prince competition had been going on for years now but it is only the third time that it will be held in Cebu. In all those years, it was only open for high school and college players and this will be the first time the elementary division is played.
Tabura is pushing for an elementary division to be included because he wants the local players to have a tune-up before plunging into action in the Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (Cviraa) and the national Private Schools Athletic Association.
As of yesterday, the entire Cebu province team competing in the Cviraa have finalized its entry. Tabura expects trams from Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue to also join the event.
In the college level, the entire Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (Cesafi), which will be seeing action in the national Prisaa on April 3, will also be taking part in the two-weekend competition.
The Cesafi tennis squad went uncontested in the regional Prisaa, which was held here in Cebu, giving them the slot to the national finals.
The team is composed of USJ-R’s Kennex Abadia, Flynn Golosinda and Ryan Montalbo and University of the Visayas’ Julianito Jopia and Oswaldo Dumuran.
Floreza Alesna, Jene Idos and Tiffany Vasquez of USC and Lovelie Soquiño of UC make up the women’s team.
Expected to liven up the competition are Bernardine Niño Siso of University of San Carlos, Fritz Satera of Sibonga, and Israel Abarquez of Carcar, among others. (MCB)
