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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Friday, October 12, 2007 |
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Guba
stuns
top-ranked Malaysian
BY CEDELF TUPAS
Negrense Martina Guba overcame a sluggish start to stun Malaysian No. 1 and tournament top seed Adelle Chia Boey and advance to the semifinals of the Agra Cup-Asian 14U Series at the Rizal Tennis Center in Manila.
The 14-year-old tennis wonder from La Carlota City wore down the Malaysian with heavy groundstrokes from the baseline to secure a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 triumph that arranged a semifinal meeting with RP No. 1 and No. 3 seed Shanine Olivarez.
"I
committed too many errors in the first set. But she was giving me high balls in
the second set and I tried my best to make her run," Martina said 
| SJI
alumni cage Nine teams have expressed interest in joining the first-ever St. John's Institute Alumni Association basketball tournament that will start late this month. The teams that have signified their intention to join are SJI batch 86-87 Boston Finance of Gilbert Sy, batch 91 and 92 Eversure Marketing of Joaquin Gochangco, batch 93 Talisay Vice Mayors Office of CB Lacson, batch 94 and 95 WMS Trucking & Crane services of Wilford Sy, batch 97-98 BTY Trading of Bitoy Yee and batch 99 and 2000 Lopues' of Jason Yap. Also joining the tournament are the SJI faculty
and Queen of Peace Parish, outgoing SJI varsity team and the current varsity squad,
a press release from organizers said. |
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