{"id":122877,"date":"2017-10-11T02:36:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122877"},"modified":"2017-10-11T02:36:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T06:36:50","slug":"junior-netters-pantino-eala-to-compete-in-sarawak-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/11\/junior-netters-pantino-eala-to-compete-in-sarawak-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior netters Pantino, Eala to compete in Sarawak tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Arthur Craig Pantino and Michael Francis Eala will see action in the 30th Chief Minister’s Cup, a Group 3 juniors tournament to be held at the Sarawak Lawn Tennis Association Centre in Malaysia on October 10-15.<\/p>\n

According to the ITF Juniors website on Tuesday, Pantino will meet Indonesian Muhammad Althaf Dhaifullah while Eala will face Swedish qualifier Mans Stapel in the first round.<\/p>\n

Malaysian Christian Didier, currently the world’s No. 83 junior player, is the No. 1 seed in the boys’ singles category. He has won two singles and three doubles titles this year.<\/p>\n

The other seeds are No. 2 Seita Watanabe of Japan, No. 3 Digvijay Prattep Singh, No. 4 Megh Bhargav Patel and No. 10 Karan Srivastava of India, No. 5 Campbell Salmon and No. 7 Rinky Hijikata of Australia, No. 9 Yu Hua-Chen and No. 16 Lin Han-Chih of Chinese Taipei, No. 9 Yu Bingyu and No. 13 Zhou Xinmu of China, No. 8 Ki Lung Ng of Hong Kong, No. 11 Gerhardt Marius Becker of South Africa, No. 14 Kasidit Samrej of Thailand, and No. 15 Lukas Hellum Lilleengen of Norway.<\/p>\n

The two Filipinos also entered the doubles category. Pantino is paired with Chinese Lu Pengyu while Eala is playing with Malaysian Shairul Shahril Mohd Adam Das.<\/p>\n

Pantino is eyeing his second straight doubles title following his triumph at the 1st Perlis ITF Junior Championship last week.<\/p>\n

Pantino and Beibit Zhukayev defeated Malaysian pair Christian Didier and Nauful Siddiq Kamaruzzaman, 6-2, 6-1, in the finals. The Cebuano, however, was beaten by Korean Kim Dong-ju, 4-6, 3-6, in the boys’ singles category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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