Cañiza Women’s Open tennis unwraps

MANILA, Philippines — Women’s tennis gets a big boost as the Rina Cañiza Women’s Open gets going today with a mix of veteran campaigners and rising stars slugging it out for top honors in individual competition and doubles play at the PCA outdoor courts in Paco, Manila.

La Carlota’s Alexa Milliam topbills the huge 64-player cast that includes Alexei Santos, Justine Maneja, Miles Vitaliano, Althea Ong, Mikaela Vicencio, Kryshana Brazal and Joanna Tan, all geared up in pursuit of the top P50,000 prize staked in singles and another P50,000 in doubles competition of the week-long Group A event presented by Dunlop.

A former national player and an active club campaigner, Cañiza is partnering with the Palawan Pawnshop-Palawan Express Pera Padala to further boost women’s tennis, help raise the level of play in their side of the battle and produce future national team players.

In fact, Cañiza and the PPS-PEPP, led by Palawan Pawnshop president and CEO Bobby Castro, are putting up a six-leg circuit with two tournaments each to be held in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.