THE CREAM of the crop in Cebu’s tennis scene will be playing against each other in the 1st St. John de Sahagon Men’s Open Tennis Championship on June 6 and 7 at the Toledo City Tennis Club in Toledo City, western Cebu.
The tournament, which is being organized by the newly elected set of officers of the Toledo City Tennis Club headed by its president Arnel Soon, will feature the Men’s Open Singles and Doubles divisions.
The two-day netfest is being co-organized by Rev. Father Borgz Sotto and supported by the City Government of Toledo headed by Mayor John “Sonny” Osmeña.
Noel Seno, father of fastest-rising junior tennis star Jan Godfrey Seno, told Cebu Daily News yesterday that the tournament has already attracted a strong field of competitors, including his son.
Leading the cast of the participants is 3rd Mayor Celestino Martinez Men’s Open champion Janjie Soquino.
RJ Abarquez, a former tennis stalwart of the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) Jaguars who snared the championship title of the 2015 Cebu City Men’s Open tennis tournament at the Pardo Tennis Organization Inc.’s clay court in Pardo will also be competing.
The Pardo men’s tennis open served as Cebu City’s selection for the members Sp of the tennis squad who will don the colors of Cebu City in the coming 2015 Philippine National Games.
Soquino and Abarquez, alongside Seno and Chang Mai Necesario have already made the cut for the Cebu City tennis team for the PNG.
Seno will also be facing his former personal coach Adonis Lominoque in the coming tournament after the latter decided to toss his hat in the tournament.
Aside from those above, also set to invade Toledo City are Necesario, veteran Roy Tabo-tabo and the former San Beda Red Lion Ralph Juliane, who is now part of the University of Cebu Webmasters tennis squad in the Cebu Schools Athletic Federation Inc. (Cesafi).
The 18-year-old Juliane joined the cast of Cebuanos who basked in the limelight of international tennis scene recently after he became a part of the Philippine Team that won the country’s first-ever lawn tennis medal during the 6th Asean School Games held last December 1 to 5 in Marikina City.
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