QUEENS CUP: Team Asia Rules Queens Cup Day 1
- Jamil Buergo
- Apr 18, 2015
- 1 min read
Rubilen Amit led Team Asia with her 3 match victories to take a 4-2 lead over Team West at the AM8.com Queens Cup on Thursday at the Resorts World Manila.
Amit participated in 3 of the 4 matches consisting of singles, doubles, and 4-on-4 play with all matches going to best of 7 games.
“I just ask everyone to pray for us. It will be difficult to communicate perfectly with my teammates from China, Taiwan, and Korea. But I am up for the challenge” said the demure World Champion Amit. Rubilen is the most successful female athlete in the history of the Philippines, winning 7 gold medals for her country in the past 10 years.
Team Asia started off very strong as they disposed Team West, 4-1 in the first 4-on-4 match of the tournament. However, Karen Corr and Jennifer Barretta quickly tied the match with their doubles victory over Chen Siming and Jennifer Chen.
In the following doubles match, Team Asia’s Amit and Park raced to an early 3-0 lead before narrowly escaping with a 4-3 win against Villareal and Laurance. Rubilen Amit would then win in another hill-hill game this time in a singles match against Karen Corr.
With their backs against the wall, veteran Villarreal was sent in to stop Asia’s momentum. Vivian stormed to a lightning fast 4-1 victory for Team West.
“We’re playing good. We lost to matches that went hill-hill to the deciding game. We could easily be in the lead right now. So that makes us confident coming into tomorrow, just knowing that we are right there keeping up with Asia”, said Jennifer Barretta.
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