PHL netter Alcantara wins first match in Indonesia
By Jean T. Malanum
MANILA, Dec. 7 (PNA) -- Filipino netter Francis Casey Alcantara opened up his campaign in the Combiphar Tennis Open on a high note on Wednesday afternoon, beating Taiwanese Lin Wei-De, 6-3, 6-2 in their first-round battle at the Sultan Hotel hard court in Jakarta, Indonesia.
The victory set up the 24-year-old player from Cagayan de Oro City with the winner between seventh seed Indonesian Sasi Kumar Mukund and Korean qualifier Oh Chan-Yeong.
Top seed Korean Kim Cheong-Eui also made it to the next round after posting a 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 victory over compatriot Chung Yunseong.
Kim will be up against Indonesian wildcard Justin Barki, who pulled off a 6-2, 6-4 win over Vietnamese qualifier Thien Nguyen Hoang.
Second seed Japanese Makoto Ochi outplayed Chinese wildcard Lyu Chengze, 7-6(3), 6-1 to advance to the second round of the USD10,000 tournament organized by the Indonesia Tennis Federation.
Joining Ochi in the next round are compatriots fourth seed Yusuke Takahashi, No. 8 Kento Takeuchi and Renta Tokuda.
Takahashi won over Polish Karol Drzewiecki, 7-5, 6-4; Takeuchi rallied past Indian Rishab Agarwal, 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-2; and Tokuda prevailed over Taiwanese Hung Jui-Chen, 6-4, 6-2.
Other first-round winners were Canadian qualifier Kelsey Stevenson, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 and Hungarian Viktor Filipenko over Japanese qualifier Daisuke Sumizawa, 6-3, 6-3. (PNA)
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