Buddy Garote completed back-to-back games Wednesday evening, but you don’t see him complaining as his hard work paid off in the form of a championship in the men’s 4.5 division of the inaugural Aon Insurance Tennis Tournament.<\/p>\n
Garote first battled Lope Padilla in the semifinals in the early part of evening and prevailed in three tough sets, 3-6, 5-7, 6-2. <\/p>\n
After a brief break, the Star Water Co. employee was back again at the American Memorial Park tennis courts, this time contesting the championship against Commonwealth Health Center nurse Renato “Dodong” Espanola.<\/p>\n
Battling fatigue, Garote had some trouble controlling Espanola’s forays in the opening set, but persevered and won 7-5. Using that momentum, he mustered all his remaining reserves and didn’t let Espanola force a third and deciding, winning the game by taking the second in a score of 6-3.<\/p>\n
While two games in one night seemed to be a cinch for Garote, the same cannot be said for Jaime Hagos. After winning his semis bout against Babu Malayil in a marathon score of 6-7 (2-7), 6-0, 7-5, Hagos had little energy left in his title game against Dr. Gary Ramsey.<\/p>\n
Ramsey took the initiative early and won the opener, 7-5. Hagos returned the favor in the next set, 6-2, but there was no denying the CHC doctor in the third and final set as he wrapped up the game and the championship with a 6-2 victory.<\/p>\n
Doubles competition also got going Wednesday evening and it saw action in the men’s 2.0 and 3.0.<\/p>\n
Winning their first round assignments in the men’s 2.0 were Thomas and Joel Joab, who beat Oscar Dimatulac and Louie Cagampang, 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; and Christian and Bryan Baron, who won by walkover against Sunny Shakir and Alex Katta.<\/p>\n
Men’s 3.0 then saw the pair of Ruben Leynes and Ricky Castro prevail over Roy Banados and John Jenkins, 6-2, 6-1; and the Joab brothers again victorious this time against Bobby Nato and Das Narayanan, 7-5, 6-4.<\/p>\n
For more information about the inaugural Aon Insurance Tennis Tournament, call Roy Pangelinan at 287-7697, Nelia Luna at 287-0859, Ricky Castro at 234-5091, Richard Asuncion at 287-0856, Edwin Maratas at 287-0870, Babu Malayil at 287-4472, Peter Loyola at 285-3135, Lenny Pantaleon at 285-9500, or email saipan_tennis@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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