MULTI-TITLED Johnny Arcilla seeks to add another Open crown to his vast trophy collection but faces a slew of hungry rivals in the Brookside Open National Tennis Championships starting tomorrow, Tuesday, at the Brookside Hills courts in Cainta, Rizal.
Hostilities actually kicked off over the weekend with the staging of the two-day qualifiers to accommodate the big number of players bidding to join the Group A tournament that also features Jose Maria Pague, Vicente Anasta, Charles Kinaadman, Ronard Joven, Zion Guia, John Tomacruz and Noel Damian Jr.
Arcilla is coming off a couple of title romps in the Puerto Princesa Open, where he repulsed doubles partner Joven, and in the Pintaflores Festival Open, which he copped as Pague retired due to injury.
But the 22-year-old Pague, from Zamboanga Sibugay, is coming into this week’s event, sponsored by Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala, Rep. Jack Duavit, BHTC president Allan del Castillo, Ret. PNP Dir. Gen. Oscar Calderon, Ret. Gen. Louizo Ticman and Selective Security Services, in good shape, winning the singles and doubles titles in the Buglasan Open last month.
