Torres, Jarata score PPS Urdaneta double
Date Published: May 15, 2018
Charles Torres and Marielle Jarata carved out a pair of victories each in varying
fashions and clinched the MVP honors in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera
Padala Urdaneta age group tennis tournament at the Urdaneta Tennis Courts and Pozorrubio
Tennis Club in Pangasinan recently.
The second ranked Torres upended top seed Exequiel Jucutan, 7-5, 7-5, to snare the
boys’ 16-and-under crown then the Calasiao bet survived No. 4 Eric Bajet, 6-7(5),
6-1, 10-6, in the 18-U finals of the Group 2 tournament sponsored by Palawan Pawnshop
headed by president/CEO Bobby Castro and presented by Dunlop, the official ball.
Jarata, in contrast, stamped her class in the girls’ 12-U section, crushing Jumia
Egipto, 6-1, 6-1, then the Agoo, La Union ace took the 14-U plum with a 6-4, 6-2
victory over No. 1 Tristen Kitong in the event sanctioned by the Unified Tennis
Philippines, made up of PPS-PEPP, Cebuana Lhuillier, Wilson, Toby’s, Dunlop, Slazenger
and B-Meg.
Reversals also marred the other finals in the tournament backed by Asiatraders Corp.
with No. 4 Achaia Cabahug from Urdaneta foiling second seed Angelyn Atos, 7-5, 7-5,
in the girls’ 16-U finals then the rising Urdaneta star whipped top seed Gabrielle
Abarquez, 6-0, 6-0, to match Torres and Jarata’s feats.
Source: sports.mb.com.ph