{"id":151664,"date":"2018-02-07T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=151664"},"modified":"2018-02-07T20:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T01:43:53","slug":"ph-favored-over-singapore-in-fed-cup-tiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/07\/ph-favored-over-singapore-in-fed-cup-tiff\/","title":{"rendered":"PH favored over Singapore in Fed Cup tiff"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\"Anna<\/a>
Anna Clarice Patrimonio in action during the opening day of the Fed Cup competition in Bahrain on Tuesday. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 The Philippines hopes to advance to the next round when it faces Singapore on Thursday in the Fed Cup Asia\/Oceania Zone Group 2 tie at the Bahrain Tennis Federation hard courts.<\/p>\n

The Philippines and Singapore, which both defeated Kyrgyzstan in the Pool B round-robin, will square off at 10 a.m. (3 p.m. Manila time). The tie is played over best-of-three matches (two singles and one doubles).<\/p>\n

The winner between the Philippines and Singapore will meet the winner in Pool D composed of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and host Bahrain.<\/p>\n

Indonesia has a 2-0 win-loss slate after beating Bahrain (3-0) and Pakistan (3-0). It will face Sri Lanka on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Filipinos enjoy a 6-1 win-loss record over the Singaporeans.<\/p>\n

The last time they met was in the 2016 promotional final playoff in Thailand, where the Philippines swept the two singles ( Khim Iglupas defeated Charmaine Shi Yi Sheah, 6-2, 6-4, while Filipino-German Katharina Lehnert won over Stephanie Tan, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4) in their best-of-three match.<\/p>\n

Sheah, Tan, Lynelle En Tong Lim and newcomer Tammy Tan make up the Singaporean team, which finished seventh last year after losing to Pacific Oceania in the positional playoffs.<\/p>\n

Carrying the fight for Team Philippines are 2017 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games singles silver medalist Anna Clarice Patrimonio, Marian Jade Capadocia, Lehnert and Iglupas.<\/p>\n

During the SEA Games held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Lehnert teamed up with Fil-American Denise Dy, while Iglupas was paired with Albert “AJ” Lim Jr.<\/p>\n

Patrimonio debuted in the Fed Cup in 2011, winning all her 11 singles matches. She also won 15 doubles matches, including eight with Capadocia.<\/p>\n

Capadocia has played in the Fed Cup in 2012, 2013 and 2014. She has a 7-1 win-loss record in the singles and a 9-1 card in the doubles.<\/p>\n

Former national player Czarina Mae Arevalo is the team captain of the Philippines, which is aiming to return to Group 1. She has played 32 ties during her eight-year stint with the Fed Cup squad.<\/p>\n

The Philippines was relegated to Group 2 after\u00a0losing all four of its ties at the Group 1 competition held in Astana, Kazakhstan last year.<\/p>\n

Also scheduled to play on Thursday are New Zealand against Uzbekistan (Pool A). Pacific Oceania against Malaysia (Pool C) and Oman against Iran (Pool C).<\/p>\n

Pacific Oceania leads Pool C with two wins, while Malaysia and Oman have identical 1-1 records.<\/p>\n

The winners of each pool will face each other (A1 vs C1 and B1 vs D1) with the winners to be promoted to Group 1 in 2019.<\/p>\n

The Fed Cup is the world’s biggest annual women’s team competition.\u00a0(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2014 The Philippines hopes to advance to the next round when it faces Singapore on Thursday in the Fed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":151666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[21854,46110,46109,970],"class_list":["post-151664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anna-clarice-patrimonio","tag-bahrain-tennis-federation-hard-courts","tag-fed-cup-asiaoceania-zone-group-2-tie","tag-singapore","mauthors-jean-malanum","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151664","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=151664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}