LOCAL bets, led by Althea Fay Ong and siblings Czarina Jean and Jonas Joseph Silva, dominated the recent Cebuana Lhuillier Age Group Tennis Championship Series leg held at the Subic International Tennis Center in Olongapo City, Zambales, winning six individual titles and sharing in four doubles.
Ong went home with the girls’ 16-under and 18-under crowns and shared with Aira Tolentino the 18-under doubles’ title to emerge as top performer in the leg backed by Dunlop as the official ball.
She started her run by ruling the 16-under with an easy 6-2, 6-1 romp over Martina Naredo from Quezon City and followed it with an equally effortless 6-2, 6-3 victory over Chenly Mae Parong from Iba, Zambales.
Ong then punctuated her masterful performance with an 8-2 win with Tolentino over Naredo and Parong for the 18-under doubles’ crown.
Czarina Jean Silva posted a straight-set win over Ashley Gabriela Ajito, 6-2, 6-2, for the girls’ 14-under title and partnered with her opponent Ajito to defeat Mary Love de Guzman and Rizelle Devera, 8-0, for her second tile.
Her older brother Jonas Joseph was not threatened at all by Brian Oliveros in the finals of the boys’ 18-under as he took his first title following a 6-2, 6-1 victory. He followed this up with a share of the boys’ 18-under doubles’ crown as he and partner Edgar Bongco had an 8-2 win over Oliveros and Virgel Callanta.
“I give credit to the tennis community in Subic and Olongapo. This partnership between us sponsors and local stakeholders encourages us to sustain this grassroots tennis developmental program now on its 11th year,” said Cebuana Lhuillier President/CEO Jean Henri Lhuillier.
Other individual winners in the leg that saw Cebuana Lhuillier local officers Mylene Cortes, Area Manager, and Jessie Sasota, Area Technical Supervisor, awarding the trophies, were Calasiao, Pangasinan’s Charles Torres, who subdued Oliveros, 6-3, 6-4, in the boys’ 16-under finals; local bet Axl Lajon Gonzaga in the boys’ 14- under after beating visiting player Rainier Anselmo Selmar from Bacoor, Cavite, in the finals, 7-6, 6-2; Darwin Cosca Jr. also from Olongapo, who edged out Ralph Adrian Selmar, 6-7, 6-2, 10-8, for the boys’ 12-under crown; and Manila bet Jose Ma. de Leon, who took the measure of Urdaneta’s John Prince Lim, 4-2,4-2 in the finals of the 10-under unisex category.
In the distaff side, Ajito ruled the girls’ 12-under with an easy 6-0, 6-1 win over Devera.
Gonzaga also shared with Cosca Jr. the boys’ 14-under doubles’ title after the duo posted a close 8-6 win over Nathan Novilla and Ralph Adrian Selmar.
Losing finalist in the unisex category, John Prince Lim contented himself with a share of the 10-under unisex crown with partner Kriz Roque Lim as they beat Yuan Dorig and Lancelot Lesaca, 8-1, in the finals.