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Published December 15, 2020, 2:44 PM
Philippine Tennis Association (Philta) officials assured athletes their participation in individual tournaments would not get affected despite the association’s two-year suspension from the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
In Tuesday’s guesting at the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Forum, Philta president Antonio Cablitas said players, particularly pro athletes like Alex Eala, Francis Casey Alcantara and Ruben Gonzales, to name a few, can still compete in Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and ITF-sanctioned events.
Philta is also confident that athletes can still compete in the 2021 Southeast Asian Games since they are representing the country, not the association, although they would have to clarify this first to the SEAG organization where Vietnam is host.
URBANA â Nelly Sfeir Gonzalez, 90, died at 9:56 p.m. on Sunday, November 29, 2020, from respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 after fighting valiantly for two weeks at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
Nelly was exemplary at all the stages of her life, being at different times a fun playmate to her siblings and neighborhood children, a student leader in her university days, a supportive wife to her civil engineer husband Walter, a dedicated mother to her five sons (Walter Ramiro, Mauricio, Javier, Fernando and Sergio), a nationally-recognized librarian and award-winning bibliographer at the University of Illinois, a doting grandmother to 11 grandchildren (two of whom died prior to puberty) and one great-grandchild, and a fearless elderly person who faced the challenges of aging with serenity. A consummate oral storyteller, she had a winning smile, charming wit, and the gift of making and cultivating friends of all ages, and all social backgrounds, for the long haul. At a fe