TABLE TENNIS: THE MAKATI MAYOR'S CUP IS BACK. NASHSPINNER GETS SILVER.

The Men's Open Event winners.
L-R: F. Bendebel (Bronze), Paul Que (Bronze), Jan Nayre (Gold) and Nashspinner (Silver).

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MAKATI, PHILS — The tournament that has become a big part of the Philippine Table Tennis community is back after almost 2 years of vacation. According to the tournament's brain, Coach Gigi Aguinalde, more than 800 participants registered in the recent 3-day event from March 10-12, 2017.

Congratulations on the successful comeback!


New Generation Players
The tournament's top event, Men's Open Event turned out to be a green pasture. Philippine Team youngsters Jan Nayre (Huaching) and Ryan Rodney Jacolo (TATAND/JOOLA) won the Gold and Silver respectively. Bronze Medalists were college varsity players F. Bendebel (Adamson U) and P. Que (UST).

Olympian Ian Lariba (TATAND) competed in the Women's Open event.


The Old Guards
Congratulations to CSB Coach Bong Palermo for bagging multiple awards. The Gold for the Mens 50 and above & the Bronze for Men's Non-rank events.

It was also good to see one of the tourmanent's pioneer participants coming back as well after a number of years absence. PTTF head Mr. Ting Ledesma led the Ateneo University contingent.


Our Special Corner 
Special mention goes to Kate Lynn Cruz (TATAND), winner of the G10 Event. We saw this kid slugging it out w/ older girls in higher age brackets. Our favorite was when she gave one of the Philippine Junior Team Member "the scare" in one of their matches.

This skinny 8-year old girl, well maybe 9 but she looks more 8 than 9, has a lot of things going for her. We know she has good ponger blood in her, both her parents are Table Tennis trainers. She has a mean finishing BH coming after a flurry of FH spins. And, she belongs to a great team that takes good care of budding Table Tennis talents.

The Binay Cup Baby Challenge comes alive!

So she got the first step up the ladder. We are all eyes and ears. Let's see what happens....

We All Missed This Tournament!

The Binay Cup, last played in the 2nd Quarter of 2015, previously peaked with more than 1,000 participants played in 3 days over 23 or more tables located in 2 floors inside the Makati Coliseum.

We missed the Makati Coliseum as well. Those familiar bleacher seats we made home during the day-long vigil cheering for our sons and daughters fighting their hearts out.

Everybody has a favorite niche in the stadium. We even saw the same faces in the same places! It was nostalgic!

There are some differences in the stadium now from 2 years ago but we do appreciate the array of cctv cams along the outer corridors.

Tournament head Coach Gigi Aguinalde was ably supported upfront by Makati Panthers Vincent & Arlene Arnibal and Erwin Reyes among others.