Southeast Asian Video games – Tender Tennis – Olympic Tennis Advanced, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Might 10, 2023 Philippines’ Joseph Abas Arcilla celebrates after profitable gold medal within the males’s singles REUTERS/Cindy Liu
PHNOM PENH—Suffering from cramps midway by the match, Joseph Arcilla willed himself to transcend his limits to grab the delicate tennis males’s singles gold medal on the thirty second Southeast Asian Video games.
The veteran Arcilla defeated Indonesia’s Muhammad Anugerah, 4-3, for the victory that gave Workforce Philippines its first mint on Wednesday.
“I suffered from cramps and I may hardly stand. It was psychological toughness that stored me going,’’ stated Arcilla. “Due to our psychologist who all the time reminded us to suppose optimistic each time we go into courtroom.’’
Bambi Zoleta wasn’t as lucky after dropping a 4-3 determination towards Indonesia’s Dwi Rahayu Pitri within the girls’s gold singles match.
Arcilla’s gold was the third for the nationwide delicate tennis squad after topping the ladies’s staff occasion and the ladies’s particular person doubles
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