JOOLA TEAM A Champion At The CFBC Cup

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PHI — Joola Team A composed of Nashpinner Ryan Rodney Jacolo, Zoren Mendiola, Homber Tiongson, and led by Charlie Lim def Team Cornilleau to emerge the Class A Champion at the 2013 CFBC CUP PHILIPPINE-CHINA FRIENDSHIP DAY TABLE TENNIS INVITATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS held last May 11—12, 2013 at the Sureshot Sports Complex, Phils.

The Champion team posted a perfect performance. Each team member contributed evenly without losing a single match.

NASH's Road To Victory
Eliminations. The early stages of the tournament saw NASH pitted against UST's lefty college veteran Bazar. NASH got over this first obstacle w/ consistent blocking against the lefty's long FH sidespins and getting in a number of solid counterspins. In the endgame, NASH broke away w/ crucial service aces.

Another lefty from EAC went toe-to-toe w/ NASH up to the 4th set but came short in the 5th from NASH's FH attacks.
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Quarterfinals. NASH went against DLSU Team 2's E. Garganian of Bacolod.

Both players started slow. NASH struggled against the LOPTTA veteran's FH hard service but, fortunately, was able to keep ahead
w/ his attacks to Garganian's long pips BH side.

In the end, NASH managed to minimize his errors and prevailed by getting in several crucial loop winners.
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Semifinals. The toughest nut to crack was powerhouse DLSU Team 1.
NASH faced Walden Ledesma in the 2nd match laden with a lot of exciting counterspin rallies. Walden got a crucial rally point at 9-9 and followed up with a clever serve taking the first set 9-11.

NASH made a major comeback in the 2nd set after being down 2-6. Walden started committing important attack errors and NASH was quick to follow up with fearless couterspins tying the match at 1-1.

NASH rode his momentum well into the 3rd set and tried to pound his opponent with relentless FH topspins...with great success and seized the lead 2-1.

In the crucial 4th set, it was a seesaw battle between the two National Juniors Poolmates, resulting to a deuce. Then NASH got his advantage on Walden's attack error and added a service ace for the win.
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Finals. Teammates Z. Mendiola and H. Tiongson def. L. De Leon and Philip Uy of Cornilleau for the Championship.