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No shortage of heroes in PH sports

Manila Standard SportsbyManila Standard Sports
July 8, 2021, 6:30 pm
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Philippine sports is already teeming with top achievers halfway through the year.

Yuka Saso

The month of June alone saw a number of Filipino athletes proudly wave the country’s tricolors in the international stage, with a pair of lady teeners showing the way.

Golfer Yuka Saso displayed steely nerves in beating Nasa Hataoka in a three-hole playoff to win the US Women’s Open, becoming the first ever Filipino golfer in history to become a major winner.

At 19, the double-gold medalist in the 2018 Asian Games, tied South Korean Park Inbee as the youngest champion in the tournament.

The historic feat of Saso put her in a strong position for the Athlete of the Year honor and other recognitions handed out by the Philippine Sportswriters Association at year’s end.

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Everything snowballed after Saso’s triumph.

Rising 16-year-old netter Alex Eala won the French Open girls’ doubles title with Russian partner Oksana Selekhmeteva as they beat eighth seeds Russian Maria Bondarenko and Hungarian Amarissa Kiaratoh in straight sets, 6-0, 7-5 at Roland Garros in Paris. It was the second Grand Slam doubles' title for the Filipina scholar of the Rafael Nadal Academy, after bagging the Australian girls crown in 2020.

Pole vaulter and Olympic-bound EJ Obiena also had his share of the limelight by winning a number of gold medals, including a record-breaking performance in the Jump and Fly International Athletics in Mossingen, Germany where he established a new national record of 5.85 meters. He has since surpassed the mark by soaring to 5.87 meters that netted him a silver in the World Athletics Continental Tour in Poland.

In the same month, more Filipinos also clinched berths in the Tokyo Olympics including golfers Juvic Pagunsan, Bianca Pagdanganan, and Saso, along with skateboarder Margielyn Didal, judoka Kiyomi Watanabe, shooter Jayson Valdez, sprinter Kristina Knott, weightlifter Elreen Ando, swimmers Remedy Rule and Luke Gebbie, as well as para-athlete jin Allain Ganapin for the Tokyo Paralympics. In all, a total of 19 athletes will represent the country in the Olympiad that gets going on July 23.

Gilas Pilipinas and the Philippine Azkals also made good account of their respective international campaigns.

The men’s basketball team coached by Tab Baldwin formally clinched a berth in the FIBA Asia Cup following a three-game sweep of its schedule in the final window of the qualifier in Clark, Pampanga, including back-to-back victories over regional rival South Korea. The Filipinos later gave world no. 5 Serbia a big scare and no. 19 Dominican Republic a run for its money despite losing to both teams in the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Belgrade.

The Azkals, meanwhile, fell short of reaching the 2022 FIFA World Cup, but managed to earn a berth in the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers.

In e-sports, Execration made short work of Blacklist International, 4-1, to win the Mobile Legends Southeast Asia Cup 2021 in an all-Filipino grand finals.

Tags: Alex EalaBianca PagdangananEJ ObienaElreen AndoJayson ValdezJuvic PagunsanKiyomi WatanabeKristina KnottLuke GebbieMargielyn DidalRemedy RuleYuka Saso
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