Jeson also bows out in doubles

After a failed bid in singles, Jeson Patrombon went all out to make up for the setback in the doubles but still ended up short as he and partner Jimmy Wang of Chinese Taipei fell to Johan Brunstrom and Frederik Nielsen, 3-6, 1-6, yesterday in the $75,000 ATP Challenger Philippine Open at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center.

“I’m trying to play the best I can and learn from this experience,” said Patrombon, who dropped a 2-6, 2-6 defeat to fifth seed Kimer Coppejans of Belgium Tuesday in the first round. Patrombon’s doubles defeat left Francis Casey Alcantara and Ruben Gonzales as the last local hopes.

Alcantara and Indonesian Christopher Rungkat were playing top seed Ilija Bozoljac of Serbia and Andreas Siljestrom of Sweden while Gonzales and Darren Walsh of Great Britain were playing South Africans Dean O’Brien and Ruan Roelofse at presstime.

Alcantara, Gonzales and teener AJ Lim were also booted out by the strong foreign challenge in the opening round.

In other singles results, unheralded Swiss Marco Chudinelli pulled off the biggest shocker of the weeklong tournament after beating top seed Luca Vanni of Italy, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4, to barge into the quarterfinals.

French David Guez also brought down sixth pick Thomas Fabbiano of Italy, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4, while No. 4 Go Soeda of Japan fended off countryman Hiroki Moriya, 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.

The defeat of Vanni left No. 2 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia as the highest ranked netter after the former world No. 8 downed Chinese Taipei’s Jason Jung, 6-2, 7-5 (6).