{"id":156202,"date":"2018-03-13T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T04:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156202"},"modified":"2018-03-13T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T04:42:07","slug":"alcala-leads-ph-junior-fed-cup-team-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/13\/alcala-leads-ph-junior-fed-cup-team-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcala leads PH Junior Fed Cup team in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_156205\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156205\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/angeline-alcala_5aa724849f4262_51418836.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156205\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/angeline-alcala_5aa724849f4262_51418836.jpg\" alt=\"A file photo of Angelica Alcala (left) taken during a tournament in Lucena City last year. (Photo courtesy of Gary Alcala)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/angeline-alcala_5aa724849f4262_51418836.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/angeline-alcala_5aa724849f4262_51418836-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A file photo of Angelica Alcala (left) taken during a tournament in Lucena City last year. (Photo courtesy of Gary Alcala)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Angelica Alcala of Lucena City in Quezon province will spearhead the Philippine campaign in the pre-qualifying round of the Junior Federation Cup in Sri Lanka&#8217;s capital city of Colombo.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Gabrielle Zoleta, also from Lucena City, and Ma. Patricia Lim are the other members of the team which has left on Saturday to compete in the 16-Under tournament scheduled March 12 to 17 at the Sri Lanka Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p>Amada Gabrielle, who is the niece of national players Bien and Bambi Zoleta, has attended the 14-Under Development Training Camp in Thailand last year.<\/p>\n<p>Alcala, who studies at the International School for Better Beginnings, said she is excited to be part of the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an amazing experience representing the country and I am blessed to be included in the team. I&#8217;m excited and nervous at the same time playing against the top players from other countries,&#8221; said Alcala in an online interview on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to focus on my game. I will do my best,&#8221; added Alcala, who is the third among four tennis-playing children of Gerardo, an engineer, and Oliva, a businesswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Philippines will see action on Tuesday against Tajikistan, which is represented by Samira Davlatova, Nargizakhon and Benazir Sharifova.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines and Tajikistan are in Group C together with Singapore, which defeated Tajikistan (3-0) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Group A has Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Maldives, while Group B has Mongolia, Lebanon, and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam downed Maldives, 3-0, while Mongolia beat Bangladesh, 2-1, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The top team from each group will advance to the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Angelica Alcala of Lucena City in Quezon province will spearhead the Philippine campaign in the pre-qualifying round of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":156205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[48079,48077,48078,10758],"class_list":["post-156202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-amanda-gabrielle-zoleta","tag-angelica-alcala","tag-junior-federation-cup","tag-sri-lanka","mauthors-jean-malanum","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156202","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=156202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}