Filipino wild card entries Francis Casey Alcantara and Johnny Arcilla defeated Chinese Taipei’s Lee Kuan-yi and Liang Wen-Chun, 6-3, 6-1, Thursday night to get through the doubles semifinals of the PSC-Philta International Men’s Futures Open at Valle Verde Country Club shell courts in Pasig City.
The local tandem also scored an upset over Japanese second seeds Katsuki Nagao and Hiromasa Oku (7-5, 6-3) in the first round Wednesday night.
It also gave Arcilla and Alcantara world ranking points in doubles as well in singles where they won their opening round matches in the $15,000 meet.
They will face another Japanese pair in Issei Okamura and Kento Takeuchi in today’s semis. Okamura and Takeuchi dumped fourth seeds Chinese Taipei’s Hung Jui-Chen and Lin Wei-De, 6-4, 6-4, in the second round.