Nino Alcantara, partner win Australian Open 2009 Junior Doubles (Tennis)
16-year-old Filipino junior tennis player Francis Casey “Niño” Alcantara and partner 17-year-old Taiwanese Cheng-Peng Hsieh bagged the junior doubles title in the Australian Open 2009 in Melbourne, Australia.
They beat Mikhal Biryukov of Russia and Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan, 6-4, 6-2, in the final match. Alcantara, who is currently a fourth year high school academic scholar at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro is the first Filipino to ever win a title in one of tennis’ four major tournaments (Australian, French, Wimbledon, US Open).
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February 2nd, 2009 at 7:09 am
whoa…gd gd…good luckk…hope mataasan niya ng rate si federer or nadal(hehe..lupet nun )nice one noypi..
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
galing!!
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:08 am
This is an awesome feat for a young Filipino!
Hope this will pave the way to all Filipino tennisters to strive and win more
in other major tennis competitions.
Mabuhay ka, Nino Alcantara!
Galing mo talaga!
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 am
CONGRATS…. More power to you :)
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:11 pm
congrats!
actually magaling talaga ang pinoy sa tennis…sa junior level nga lang.
are you guys familiar with maricris fernandez? she has had some good junior performances in grand slam events around mid 90’s…the only problem here really was the transition from junior to professional level…sobrang hirap ang mga local tennis player natin.
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
galing sana kunin ni manny pacquiao as co host nya… para dumami mga sikat na kapuso stars.. di tulad sa kapamiyucks puro pa cute lang wlang contribution sa bansa. in others word words useless creatures…
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:05 pm
hey…nice one…
ikaw man ako na c ontra sa milo olympics
last few years when we were grade school?
:D:D
nice play..
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 am
galing, sana magkaroon din ng Pinoy tennis player, kasi tennis fan talaga ako, I love watching Serena, Maria Sharapova and Roger Federer, mas maganada kung pinoy naman ang mag dominate
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:28 am
;)wowohgaling
February 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
hoy janggo wla ka sa lugar at ang layo ng comment mo about the topic ah.. u get lost u stick on the topic masyado kang nahahalucinate sa magaling mong istasyon na mandaraya
February 4th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I love tennis, pinagpupuyatan ko pang manood pag grandslam tournament… if only we have the government support for our tennis player to compete internationally, then our young players such as nino might have a chance to compete in grandslams… good luck nino :)
February 5th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
ang cutecute niyaaaaaaa
February 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
kelangan cguro rich ka para matuloy tuloy mo ang game mo at maka pasok ka sa pro, nde mo na kelangan humingi ng tulong sa gobyerno natin… kc wala kang mapapala hehehehehe.
Nice nino hope to see u sa pro. Punta ka dito sa dubai open, malay mo maka-champion ka rin dito… wait lang check ko nga baka andito ka sa listahan sa dubai open… sa feb15 na start ng dubai open…
September 18th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Very timely info regarding tennis tickets and the tour. Thanks for the info. Many people have similar situations in their lives.
Hayley