Junior Fed Cupper Ho bags MSC tennis tourney title | Inquirer Sports

Junior Fed Cupper Ho bags MSC tennis tourney title

/ 01:22 AM June 15, 2012

Seventeen-year-old Jasmine Tan Ho took the sting off young upstart Roxanne Rezma, 6-7 (9-7), 6-4, 6-4, in a marathon three-hour ladies final match to capture the 2nd MSC Open recently at the Makati Sports Club.

A junior Fed Cup member, Ho actually walked through a tough draw strewn with national team members and veteran campaigners to emerge victorious in the prestigious event sanctioned by the Philippine Tennis Association.

But the lean, hard-hitting Ho needed to dig deep in the championship battle, crawling back from a set down and reversing the momentum against the 15-year-old Rezma, who made the finals via sensational 7-5, 6-3 upset of top seed Aileen Rogan in the semifinals.

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“I’m very happy to win the title because I know I worked very hard to earn it,” said Ho who chose to give away her P20,000 prize money to her ballboys.

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Taken aback by Rezma’s boundless energy, Ho needed enough time to gather her wits and worked her way around her opponent’s attacking style of play.

“I knew I got the momentum after the second set and from then I knew exactly what to do,” Ho said.

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