{"id":143259,"date":"2018-01-02T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=143259"},"modified":"2018-01-02T20:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T01:58:41","slug":"cebuano-netter-pantino-to-compete-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/02\/cebuano-netter-pantino-to-compete-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Cebuano netter Pantino to compete in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121517\" style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11149387_1117728221576859_6365972191184481792_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121517\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11149387_1117728221576859_6365972191184481792_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Filipino Junior Tennis Player Arthur Craig Pantino (Photo: Arthur Craig Pantino\/Facebook)\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11149387_1117728221576859_6365972191184481792_n.jpg 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11149387_1117728221576859_6365972191184481792_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11149387_1117728221576859_6365972191184481792_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Filipino Junior Tennis Player Arthur Craig Pantino (Photo: Arthur Craig Pantino\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Cebuano Arthur Craig Pantino is set to compete in the Hong Kong International Tennis Federation (ITF) Juniors Championships next week.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Tuesday, Pantino said he would leave on Jan. 13 to join the Group 4 tournament that would be held at the Victoria Park Tennis Center outdoor hard court on January 15-20.<\/p>\n<p>Pantino, who is No. 267 in the world juniors rankings, will be accompanied by coaches Jun Toledo and Kenneth Salvo of the Philippine Tennis Academy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ITF Juniors website, Pantino is the highest ranked player in the main draw. Michael Francis Eala, ranked 557th, is at No. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Other players in the main draw are Thailand&#8217;s Kasidit Samrej (352), Chinese Taipei&#8217;s Chang-Lin Tsai (373) and Yi Jui Lo (378), Indonesia&#8217;s Odeda Muhammad Arazza (450), India&#8217;s Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta (578), Hong Kong&#8217;s Wai Yu Kai (643), and China&#8217;s Zihao Yuan (645).<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old Pantino won his first ITF Juniors title in November last year, beating compatriot John Bryan Otico in the final of the Phinma-PSC International Juniors 2 at the Manila Polo Club indoor clay court in Makati City.<\/p>\n<p>Pantino also won back-to-back doubles titles in the two-leg tournament organized by the Philippine Tennis Association. He won the second leg title with Otico while he teamed up with Michael Francis Eala in the first leg.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, Pantino pocketed the doubles title with Beibit Zhukayev of Kazakhstan in the 1st ITF Perlis Junior Championships in Malaysia.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Cebuano Arthur Craig Pantino is set to compete in the Hong Kong International Tennis Federation (ITF) Juniors Championships &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":121517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[41426,41427],"class_list":["post-143259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cebuano-netter-pantino","tag-hong-kong-international-tennis-federation-itf-juniors-championships","mauthors-jean-malanum","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}