Barraquias, McKenzie share honors in Buglasan
MACLEAN BARRAqUIAS wore down top seed Roel Capangpangan in a duel of power and baseline game as he hacked out a 6-4, 5-7, 10-6 decision to claim the men’s singles Open crown in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala (PPS-PEPP) Buglasan Tennis Festival at the Praxevilla Tennis Courts in Dumaguete City last Sunday.
The No. 2 Barraquias later teamed up with sibling Keane to score a repeat over Capangpangan and Carmelo Cabaral, 8-6, and bag the doubles diadem to sweep the centerpiece division of the Group I tournament that served as part of Negros Oriental’s “Festivals of Festivals.”
Sharing top honors were Legends division winners Mories Mesiona and Gundel Orcullo, Randy Tatoy and Vardy Vincoy, and Rudy Cabatit and Tony
Alviola, while young
Khymbery
McKenzie and Randy
Tatoy II dominated the juniors division of the event put up by Gov. Roel Degamo in tie-up with the PPS-PEPP headed by President and CEO Bobby Castro.
Mesiona and Orcullo routed John Lundqvist and Rameses Tolin, 8-3, in the 40s finals; Tatoy and Vincoy trounced Angel Mahinay and Tolin, 8-4, for the 50s title; and Cabatit and Alviola crushed Glem Grapa and Chabby Saberon, 8-4, to pocket the 60s plum in the event presented by Dunlop and backed by MCF Global.
McKenzie, meanwhile, stunned top seed Ellaine Bahonsua, 4-1, 0-4, 10-5, in the semis then held off sibling Ashley McKenzie, 6-4, 6-3, to clinch the girls’ 18-under crown while Tatoy II thumped top seed Lorenz Celis, 6-3, 6-1, in the boys’ 18-under finals.
Khymberly actually completed a rare “treble” as she ruled the 14-under and 16-under classes over Faith Banico, 7-6(4), 4-2, and Ashley, 6-3, 6-4, respectively, while Tatoy II completed a double by
blasting Philip
Mesiona, 6-0, 6-0, in the 16-under finals.
Herman Illusorio fended off Kirby Ramacho, 6-3, 7-5, for the boys 14-under crown while Banico whipped Jean Patoc, 4-1, 4-0, and Ramacho ripped Kurt Barrera, 6-2, 6-1, in the 12-under finals; and David Sepulveda turned back top seed and doubles partner Pete Bandala, 6-4, 5-7, 10-6, in the 10-under unisex championship.
The McKenzies also copped the doubles 18-under plum with an 8-3 romp over Bahonsua and Ghilliana Yu with Celis and Jerson Padilla clinching the boys’ title with an 8-7(1) decision over Clyde Singson and Emmanuel Carmona. Other winners were Banico-Sheynna Yu and Illusorio-Ramacho (14-under) and Sepulveda-Bandala (10-under unisex).