MANILA, Philippines - John David Velez took the first of four slots offered to top campaigners in the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala regional age-group tennis tournament after an impressive campaign in the early going of the 54-leg circuit.
A total of four players – one boy and one girl each from the 14- and 16-and-under categories – will be given three-month scholarship grants at the Macs Crankit Tennis Academy in Australia. The player must be a three-time champion in his/her category of any grouping in the PPS-PEPP tilt in Visayas and Mindanao legs.
Meanwhile, action resumes in Kidapawan City today with close to 200 players vying for top honors in various divisions of the 10th leg of the circuit sponsored by Palawan Pawnshop and presented by Slazenger.
Velez, one of the rising stars from Davao, has won in the Butuan and CdO stops of the nationwide circuit put up by the country’s leading pawnshop and remittance center then dominated the recent Davao leg to clinch the first MCTA grant.