Santos, Billonez capture PPS MVP titles
MANILA, Philippines - Sebastian Santos upstaged his fancied fellow local rivals
while Franzyn Billonez lived up to the hype as they scored two singles victories
each in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala Puerto Princesa leg regional
tennis tournament at the Puerto Princesa Tennis Club in Palawan yesterday.
The unranked Santos stunned top seed and doubles partner Rayven Hitosis twice in
three times that they faced in the finals, winning the boys’ 14- and 16-and-under
titles via 6-2, 6-3 and 4-1, 0-4, 10-6 scorelines, respectively.
Hitosis averted a sweep by winning the 16-U crown in a rain-shortened finale, 4-2,
4-1.
Billonez also pocketed the girls’ 14- and 16-U plums over doubles partner Amelie
Matta, 6-0, 7-3(3), and 5-4(6), 3-5, 10-3, respectively. But like Santos, she missed
sweeping the three titles as Matta took the 18-U diadem with a 1-0(ret.) win.
But their two titles proved enough to net Santos and Billonez the MVP honors in
the Group 2 event sponsored by Palawan Pawnshop and presented by Slazenger and backed
by the Unified Tennis Group, led by PPS-PEPP, Cebuana Lhuillier, Wilson, Toby’s,
Dunlop, Slazenger and B-Meg.
Source: www.philstar.com