MARAWI City in Lanao del Sur and Iligan City in Northern Mindanao played host to back-to-back legs in the 2015 Cebuana Lhuillier Age-Group Tennis Championship series, with familiar names not just lording it over the field, but even emerging double winners in different age groups, led by Ozamiz City bet Lorraine Grace Barrola, who annexed the 16- and 18-under titles and partnered with Carmeville Gervacio to add the girls’ 18-under doubles’ crown to her collection.
Barrola beat her doubles’ partner Gervacio, 6-4, 6-1 in the 16-under finals and took the measure of her foe’s sibling Immaville, 7-6, 7-6, in the 18-under group. She teamed up with Carmeville and they disposed of Immaville and Erlyn Lorraine Penados, 8-3, to emerge as the winningest entry in the Marawi City leg of the series.
The other multi-winners in Group 2 event held at the Mindanao State University Tennis Center were Zamboanga’s Jose Maria Pague, who beat local bet Duma Hakim Boloto, 2-6, 6-0, 10-7, in the boys’ 16-under and defeated Cagayan de Oro’s Clyde Mari Casino, 7-6, 7-5, in the 18-under; 10-under singles and doubles’ champion Nash Agustines, who partnered with his singles finals’ opponent John Christopher Sonsona in the doubles; Marc Nicole Suson from Cebu City, who copped the 14-under boys’ title and a share of the 14-under boys’ doubles with Justin Yepis; and Sydney Ezra Enriquez, winner of the girls’ 12-under and the 14-under doubles with partner Princess Debbie Gom-os. Boloto and Casino consoled themselves with the 18-under boys’ doubles crown.