Mejia, Sacapano share spotlight

Rising Roxas City player Angelo Mejia and Averille Sacapano bagged two titles each in the Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala regional age group tennis tournament held at Vistec Tennis Club in Roxas City last Sunday.

The 11-year-old Mejia held off No. 4 Marben Mosquera, 6-4, 6-3, to pocket the boys’ 12-and-under crown then stopped fellow local bet Drixyn Guillano, 6-3, 6-2, to top the 14-U section of the Group 4 tournament.

Sacapano, on the other hand, shocked top seed Tracy Llamas twice, 5-7, 6-4, 10-8, in the girls’ 16-U finals and 4-6, 6-2, 10-4, in the premier 18-U category. Llamas snared the 16-U plum with a 1-6, 7-5, 10-8 victory.

Averille’s younger sister Abigail took the 12-U title, 3-6, 6-4, 11-9, while La Carlota’s Khenz Justiani took the 10-unisex title with a 4-0, 4-0 romp over Abigail.

Luke Flores of Central Philippine University in Iloilo routed Lorenzo Legaspi, 6-2, 6-3, to clinch the boys’ 18-U plum with Legaspi compensating by snaring the 16-U title with a 1-6, 6-3, 10-3 victory over Janul Marquez.