YOUNG Glydel Guevarra trounced Carla Andrada twice, including a 6-0, 6-2 romp in the 16-and-under finals to complete a three-title feat in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala Bicol Open regional age-group at the University of Saint Anthony Tennis Club in Iriga City recently.
The 12-year-old Guevarra dominated her age bracket with a 6-0, 6-0 rout of Maya Cabrera and ripped Andrada, 6-1, 6-0, in the 14-U finals before capping her exploits in the tougher 16-U division of the Group 2 tournament sponsored by Palawan Pawnshop headed by president/CEO Bobby Castro and backed by Asiatraders Corp.
Marcel Correa, meanwhile, scored a “double” in boys’ play, crushing Kian Nuñez twice, 4-0, 4-0, in the 10-unisex finals and 6-0, 6-1 in the 12-U championship to share MVP honors with his fellow Iriga bet Guevarra.
Other winners were Iriga’s Patricia Corporal and Naga City’s Jolo Basa, who ruled the 18-U division via short route, and local aces Marlo Correa, who captured the 14-U crown, and Jan Harold Trillanes, who topped the 16-U section of the event backed by Asiatraders Corp.
Corporal scored a 1-0 (ret.) win over Paula Uy; Basa won over Osward Hernandez, 7-6(12), 4-1 (ret.); Marlo Correa edged Ranier Lagatuz, 6-4, 7-5; and Trillanes also came away with a 4-1 (ret.) win over Raphael Liangco in the tournament sanctioned by the Unified Tennis Philippines, made up of PPS-PEPP, Cebuana Lhuillier, Wilson, Toby’s, Dunlop, Slazenger and B-Meg.
Guevarra actually racked up four titles as she later teamed up with Corporal to rout Lagatuz and Uy, 8-1, in the 18-U doubles finals, while Hernandez and Trillanes took the boys’ diadem with an 8-4 vicotry over Lagatuz and Angelo Saunar. Siblings Maya and Naya Cabrera pocketed the girls’ 14-U plum with an 8-2 rout of Jasmine Guevarra and Romylyn Velasco, while CJ De Castro and Tatin Wong bagged the boys’ crown with an 8-6 decision over Mark Egipto and Lagatuz.
Marcel Correa and Keyin Oliva ran away with the 10-U doubles title with an 8-1 triumph over Nathaniel Cortez and Sabio Sabion.
Meanwhile, action in the PPS-PEPP Legazpi leg age-grouper heats up with the Iriga stage winners hoping to sustain their winning forms. For details, call PPS Sports Program Development director and event organizer Bobby Mangunay at 0915-4046464.