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I’m seeing more and more articles on local tennis talents cropping up in broadsheets, like this one:

Young Filipino sensation Leander Lazaro downed Japan’s Kenta Hashimoto, 6-3, 6-3, Thursday to retain the boys’ 16-under title in the 20th Andrada Cup age-group tennis championships at the Olivarez Sports Complex.

The lanky, 15-year-old Lazaro, also the defending 18-under champion, overwhelmed the visitor after organizers moved the venue from the open-air Rizal Memorial Tennis Center due to intermittent rains. Read the article here.

I hope this is the start of something big. I would love it if we had regular representatives in the major tournaments and Grand Slams, like the Japanese and Chinese.

It’s too bad I can’t find photos of Leander or the other young Pinoy tennis players in the Andrada Cup.

Here are some photos of the tennis talents we have right now:

Marian Jade Saldajeno Capadocia

(more on Marian Jade in this article)

Bien Zoleta (visit the Zoleta sisters’ site)

Jessica Agra(read an article on Jessica here)

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