Tennis: Alcantara ousted in Jakarta doubles semifinals

Rosy Mina

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Francis Casey Alcantara IG" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/01/28/20230128-francis-casey-alcantara-ig.jpg"/><figcaption>Francis Casey Alcantara of the Philippines. <em>Photo courtesy of Francis Casey Alcantara on Instagram. </em></figcaption></figure></div><p>No. 1 seeds Francis Casey Alcantara of the Philippines and Ray Ho of Chinese Taipei suffered a 4-6, 2-6 upset in the semifinals of the M15 Jakarta tournament in Indonesia.</p><p>They fell to the unseeded Japanese tandem of Keisuke Saitoh and Naoki Tajima in 59 minutes at the Sultan Hotel Tennis Court on Friday.</p><p>At 3-3, Alcantara and Ho were broken after leading at 40-15. In the following game, they failed to convert a break point opportunity.</p><p>The first set concluded in favor of Saitoh and Tajima, 6-4, after they committed a love service hold.</p><p>In the second set, Alcantara and Ho trailed at 2-4 after failing to convert two break points in the sixth game.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/06/11/22/alcantara-ly-clinch-m15-tennis-doubles-title-in-vietnam">Tennis: Alcantara, Ly bag M15 Tay Ninh doubles title in Vietnam</a></li></ul><p>They were broken in the following game after the Japanese duo caught up to deuce.</p><p>Saitoh and Tajima then served out the match, 6-2, to reach the final versus No. 2 seeds Rithvik Choudar Bollipalli and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha of India.</p><p>The Indians overpowered the Japanese in the final of the $15,000 ITF Men&#x27;s World Tennis Tour event on Saturday, 6-1, 6-3.</p><p>The M15 Jakarta campaign of Alcantara and Ho began with a 7-6(5), 6-4 win over Moerani Bouzige of Australia and Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul of Thailand.</p><p>They went on to beat Indians Ishaque Eqbal and Karan Singh, 6-2, 6-2, in the quarterfinals.</p><p>Alcantara, 30, is the ATP Doubles World No. 346 with a career-high ranking of World No. 257.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/05/01/22/tennis-alcantara-sinclair-win-m25-cairo-doubles-title">Tennis: Alcantara, Sinclair win M25 Cairo doubles title</a></li></ul><p>He kicked off the 2023 season on the ATP Challenger Tour in Thailand, where he went out in the first round of the doubles events at the Nonthaburi 1 with Yu Hsiou Hsu of Chinese Taipei and Nonthaburi 3 with Hiroki Moriya of Japan.</p><p>Alcantara, a five-time ITF men’s doubles champion, won the Southeast Asian Games men’s doubles gold in 2019 and the Australian Open junior boys’ doubles title in 2009.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VzcOaTj6L8E?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

No. 1 seeds Francis Casey Alcantara of the Philippines and Ray Ho of Chinese Taipei suffered a 4-6, 2-6 upset in the semifinals of the M15 Jakarta tournament in Indonesia.

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Tennis: Alcantara ousted in Jakarta doubles semifinals

Rosy Mina

Published Jan 28, 2023 11:38 PM PHT

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