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[Tennis King]

Good luck to both! Danilina hits the ball very hard.. Andrews needs to play smart!

[racketwiz]

Jeson lost in the 3rd set tiebreak. He held 3 match points at 6-3 in the tiebreak then lost then next 5 points.  

I think he choked.  Growing pains, I'm sure.

[burosky]

Jeson lost in the 3rd set tiebreak. He held 3 match points at 6-3 in the tiebreak then lost then next 5 points.  

I think he choked.  Growing pains, I'm sure.

I'm just curious.  What made you think he choked?

[Tennis King]

Hate to say this... but it looks like a bad loss.

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JESON GETS ANOTHER WIN AND ATP POINT IN THE MAIN DRAW (MEXICO)

Dear Congressman and Everybody,

 Jeson earns another win in the main draw and his sixth ATP point to boost his ranking in the men’s Pro Tour. Today he defeated Eduardo Peralta Tello of Mexico 6-3, 6-3 who was ranked as high as 827 in the ATP 2 years ago and currently ranked 1076. It was not an easy match due to the tough conditions here in Zacatecas and it was more of a mental match than a tennis match. In the first set Peralta was hitting big and was finding the marks of the court to put jeson early on the defensive. The courts today was super fast due to the hot weather and the balls are lighter due to the high altitude plus the strong winds blowing in every direction which makes this match very tough to handle. There where hardly any rallies and the player who could control these situations comes out on top. Both players where struggling to hold serve in the first 4 games because the wind is just blowing so hard and the sun is shinning on top of their faces which is very difficult to see the ball toss on their serves. The sun was also blinding the server temporarily which resulted in numerous double faults and errors from both players that also resulted in both players loosing their serves back and fort. Before the boys played their matches we have already talked about these scenarios and what adjustments they need to do because during one of our practice sessions we encountered the same problems and it gave us the feed back that we needed to come up with solutions. I also coached the boys to remember always to deal with any situation arising from a match and not let the situation deal with them. Jeson handled the crisis very well and held on his serve for a 3-2 lead. Peralta also manages to hold his own serve to put the score at 3 all. Jeson once again held on to his serve for a 4-3 lead and was able to break Peralta the following game to take command of the set at 5-3. Peralta this time is going crazy and I looked at Jeson and egged him to capitalize which he did to close out the set with his serve for a 6-3 first set win. In the second set Jeson took the initiative and broke Peralta in the first game. Peralta is getting crazier and starts arguing with the umpire and was looking at my direction because after a long rally at 30-40 his serve Jeson hit a down the line backhand shot for a winner, so I clapped. Peralta thought the ball was out and the umpire’s decision got influence because I clapped at the point. It was clearly a winner and I believe that was just a flimsy excuse and he was looking for someone to blame which I didn’t back down when he was staring at me. I just kept my cool and I know I was getting into his head even if I’m not doing anything to him. I’m just supporting my player that’s it. Anyway after that game he just totally lost it and could not hit a single ball in. Jeson held serve till 5-3 and now it was Peralta serving

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Part 2

with his face facing the sun. He took his sunglasses and wore it during the game to block off the sun and he was serving under hand from time to time to piss off Jeson. I just signaled Jeson to keep playing and focused which he did and Peralta served 3 double faults in a row to hand Jeson the match 6-3, 6-3. After the match Peralta was going bezerk and he pulled down his pants showing his butt to the audience. What an asshole, sorry for the language but this is how difficult it is to play the Tour. Some guys can go crazy anytime and if you are not strong enough mentally you can end up in a nut house. I told the boys welcome to the Futures. Today’s match was a good mental challenge for Jeson, to survive a match and an opponent like Peralta shows that his maturity is developing. These intangible things are what make’s a player tougher. It is not just about your strokes, your physical training or your conditioning that will make you win big, but most importantly it is how you control adversities and crazy situations that can occur in a match anytime that will make you stronger. Jeson today was able to handle it and I am proud of that. Marc on the other hand lost only 7-5, 6-1 to Chris Fletcher from Australia the no.5 seed and who is riding high in confidence after his finals appearance in singles in the Tijuana leg. Fletcher is the same player Marc beat in Leon 6-4, 6-4 but today Fletcher escaped the upset axe when Marc blew several chances to close out the first set. Marc was up 4-2 and 15-40 double break points to go up 5-2 in the first set but Fletcher never stopped being aggressive and continued his serve and volley game which paid off for him to hold serve at 4-3 with Marc serving next. He immediately went on the attack and chipped and charge his way into the net because he knows he will not win against Marc from the back court which again proved to be successful to tie the set at 4 all. Marc fought back hard and broke Fletcher once again to take the lead at 5-4 serving for the set. But Fletcher was unfazed and continued attacking the net to once again break Marc to tie the set at 5 all. From here on it was all Fletcher which carried on to the second set where he never stopped attacking the net until Marc folded.


Fletcher went on to win the match 7-5, 6-1. Marc has been playing well and in-spite of him knowing that he will be playing the finalist in Tijuana, Marc was confident he could win this match today which I believe he could. The first set was the key to this match and it could have changed dramatically the outcome of match. The great thing about Marc now is that he believes his time will come to win big in these Pro tournaments and earn more ATP points. Now he knows he is capable of beating a high caliber players like Fletcher who was able to reach a singles final of this Tour. With more coaching, training and tournaments I do believe his time will come in the near Future.

[cypher]

Well got to go for now and until next time, God bless to all
Yours truly,
Coach Manny Tecson

End

[cypher]

WE ARE HEADED TO NEW YORK FOR THE US OPEN


Every ATP point earned here in the tour is like passing through the eye of the needle. All the players are tough and can beat anyone any given day. Winning 1 ATP point is like being the champion of a grade 1 ITF junior event or even more, especially when you are competing in the US or here in Mexico where you will come across so many good US, South American, European and Australian men’s Pro and College players. There is no easy match here in the Tour and the scores at times don’t reflect how difficult the match was.

Another comparison on how difficult and tough is to earn 1 ATP point in the Pro Tour is the case of Marc Reyes one of our scholars at TAPF. Marc was a singles finalist two years ago in our prestigious PCA Men’s Open Championships and also he did very well this year in the Pro Club tournaments in Italy just a few months ago, but in the beginning of the Tour Marc could not even get pass the 2nd round of the qualifying in Decatur and Edwardsville. Marc started picking up his game with a lot of coaching, training and conditioning on the 3rd leg in Leon where he had a big win against Chris Letcher of Australia ranked 674 in the ATP and the recent singles finalist last week in the Tijuana Men’s Futures leg. But again in Tijuana and here in Zacatecas Marc could only pass the qualifying rounds of both legs and lost two first round matches in the main draw against Olson of Belgium and the in form Fletcher of Australia who is beaming with confidence after his runner-up finish in Tijuana. Marc has improved tremendously in this Tour and he told me he is definitely a better player now than before. He said that these Men’s Futures tournaments in the US and Mexico where an eye opener for him and that compared to the tournaments he has competed in before, these tournaments are far better and tougher to play in because of the quality of opponents and competition he is encountering which he needs to keep developing his entire game.   

Jeson on the other hand lost only to Kalmanovich the semifinalist in Decatur, to Hovhanisshan the semifinalist in Edwardsville 7-6 in the 3rd set and after going through 128 qualifying draw, to Marcel Felder the champion in Leon and ranked in the ATP top 300, to Midhawy of the US also a top 300 player and the finalist in Leon and finally Diaz the no.2 seed and also a top 300 ATP player here in Zacatecas. It was always a tough draw for Jeson and I was hoping he would not face the top players in the earlier rounds so he can get some more matches tuck in his belt and hopefully some more wins, but this is the way the luck of the draw goes sometimes.

This has been a very fruitful circuit for us because Jeson and Marc won’t be going home empty handed. In every leg that Jeson played except Decatur, he has earned 1 ATP point for reaching the round of 16. Jeson now has a total of 6 ATP points including the 1 point each he got in India and Indonesia a few months ago.






My goal for Jeson at the start of this circuit was to break in the top 1000 by the end of this circuit which I know will be very difficult to do especially here in these tough US and Mexico Pro tournaments. If my computations are right by the end of next week or in 2 weeks time he will enter the top 900 plus in the ATP rankings which is a jump of more than 400 spots from 1389 in the beginning of the circuit. As far as national men’s ranking is concern as explained to me before by Mr. Randy Villanueva the EVP for Philta, 1 ATP point is equivalent to 300 local points. What this means now is that with the 6 ATP points that Jeson has will result to 1800 local points for him.

While Marc who started the circuit with not even a main draw appearance in all the men’s Futures he has joined before is now in the ATP rankings at 1508 courtesy of his round of 16 finished in Leon plus a big win against Fletcher of Australia ranked in the top 600 in the ATP rankings and who was the singles finalist in the Tijuana leg. Marc also made it into 2 main draw appearances in the Tijuana and Zacatecas legs through the qualifying rounds.

It has been a hard, exhausting and learning experience for us but it was all worth it. The boys have gained so much knowledge in this Tour and they have a better understanding of themselves now on what needs to be done to keep improving and developing their games. At the start of the Tour it was overwhelming for the boys to see so many good and tough players even in the qualifying rounds, 128 players vying for a spot in the main draw. If you are good enough to get in the main draw you will have to compete against highly ranked ATP and college players, plus their legs and bodies are very fresh since as a qualifier you have to win 4 matches to get in. But the key was we kept on working hard and at times to be honest I was talking so much like a tape recorded during practice, training, before the match and after the match to keep them from being negative and down on themselves. I have to keep them motivated at all times and I always have to dwell on the positive things we are accomplishing because it is so easy for young players to loose focused and start disbelieving in themselves which will be a nightmare for the coach and everybody. Imagine for five weeks you have a negative person traveling with you. This will definitely make the Tour unproductive and disastrous.

How time flies and I can still remember 5 weeks ago that we were all panicking since united airlines left our bags, luggage and tennis rackets back in Chicago.  Jeson and I are now headed to New York for his last Junior Grand Slam tournament which is the US Open, while Marc is headed back home to Manila and will resume training to consolidate all the things he has gained in this Tour, after the US Open Jeson and I are headed to Cebu to join the Philippine Davis Cup Team headed by Captain Cecil Mamiit to prepare for the upcoming Tie against Chinese Taipei starting on September 16 to the 18th.

Thank you very much and God bless to all.

Yours truly,
Coach Manny Tecson         


END

[tennisfan]

Jeson also lost in his doubles match with Jaden Grinter (NZL) in the tie break. 4-6 6-0 0-1(6).

I really thought after Jeson went deep up to the quarterfinal of the first hard court grand slam (australian open), and after his succesful run on the men's tour in the futures (succesful even if he didn't get past in the 2nd rnd. considering it was his first strings of futures tournaments)that this would be the biggest chance of a pinoy to win a slam or even go as far as final or semifinal in this last hard court slam of the season. But then he got beaten in the first round after having 3 consecutive chances of winning, and that's very painful for us fans and supporters. But to Jeson, coach Manny and his sponsors, that's probably unimaginable.

First round in the junior slam is always difficult for every junior players, specially for Jeson who has been out for a while in the junior competitions. Even to those other seeded players, as most of the junior players right now do not anymore play exclusively in the juniors and some of those juniors who concentrate on futures tournaments are usually just showing in the slams, so the seeding would actually be tricky, just like Silva whom Jeson lost to in the 1st round, although only 16 yrs old and currently ranked no 45 in the junior, but is already ranked 1706 in the ATP.

I always believed, had Jeson pass in that first round, things could have been different. But things happened for a reason, what would not kill you, will only make you stronger ika nga. Yes it's true we would wait for how many more years for that chance for a pinoy to win a junior slam, but we must not forget, that we always have something to celebrate, that Jeson is making progress in the men's tour, which is actually very important too, as he is now stepping on a place only very few previliged people had done..

So let's pray for Jeson and co.'s success.

Just keep the faith!

[smiley]

di ata ma-swerte si jeson sa doubles, puro talo!

but the next time he wins, it'll be very very sweet!
tons of blessings for you next time! 

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HEART BREAKER LOST TODAY BUT WE WILL KEEP MOVING FORWARD

Dear Congressman and Everybody,

Today was a heartbreaker when Jeson lost to Silva of Portugal 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) in the tie-breaker after having 3 match points at 6-3, but we have to keep moving forward and we say goodbye to the juniors. The junior years have been great for Jeson’s development and a good stepping stone for his entry into the Pros. All our goals and objectives in the juniors where achieved; top 10 ranking in the world, quarterfinalist in singles in a Grand Slam, 4 singles ITF finals in a Grade 1, champion in the China Open singles, qualified in the 1st World Youth Olympics, qualified in all Grand slam events (Wimbledon, US Open, French Open and Australian Open) and many more which makes it a very successful junior career for Jeson. Now it’s time to focus on the big show which is the men’s and Jeson will be ranked in the top 900 plus in the ATP by next week and to us this is far more important since it will guarantee entry into more Men’s Pro tournaments.

The Pros is another chapter in Jeson’s career and I am looking at the coming 3 years as the development and progression stage of Jeson in the men’s. Tennis is so different now a days and the composition of the top 200 or 100 players in the ATP Tour are ranging in age 21 and above, no player below 20 is ranked in the top 100 unlike before. These days players in their late 20’s and up to 30 years of age are still improving in their tennis and are still getting stronger physically. They are picking in their tennis careers at this stage and a good example is Mardy Fish who at the age of 28 or 29 is having the best year of his tennis career ranked in the top 10 in the world.

We are also looking forward now to the coming Davis Cup tie in Cebu against Chinese Taipei which definitely will be a big boost in Jeson’s young Pro tennis career. As soon as our tournament here in the US Open is finish we will fly immediately to Cebu to join the team headed by Captain Cecil Mamiit, Treat Huey and Ruben Gonzalez for practice to prepare for the tie this coming Sept. 16 to the 18th. By the way we saw Treat Huey here at the players lounge and we got to talk a little before his 3rd round doubles match against Bhupatti and Paes of India. After the Davis Cup we will compete in two Men’s $15,000 tournaments in Indonesia together with Marc Reyes this September to keep improving Jeson’s and Marc’s ATP ranking and hopefully by the end of this year Jeson would be ranked in the top 700 while Marc maybe at about 900. By next year since he will be a full-time Pro my plan would be a combination of men’s Pro Futures and some Challenger tournaments to test the waters in these bigger events even if we have to go through the qualifying.

I have talked today with several agents who are friends of mine and they are expecting big things for Jeson in the near future since in just a few tournaments in the men’s he is already making progress in developing his points and ATP ranking which they say is so difficult to do especially since you are still a junior against the men’s.


These guys are more interested in Jeson’s ATP ranking than his world junior rankings because they say that his junior ranking as of now is irrelevant. They also gave Jeson meaningful advices in his transition to the Pros. They told him to work harder and keep believing in himself. They cited Federer at 30 being the greatest player already and Mardy Fish who is playing the best tennis in his career at 29 years old, both still wanting to improve their games.

Jeson understood what need’s to be done to keep developing his game and now he knows more clearly the reason why I push him hard with his training and everything we do.

Until next time God bless to all.

Yours truly,
Coach Manny Tecson

[pytda]

this coach can really spin stuff...
would love to see Jeson play the PCA Open....

[burosky]

this coach can really spin stuff...

You are just kidding, right?

[racketwiz]

this coach can really spin stuff...

..... and you definitely have the balls 

[SLP888]

pytda,

It seems that you knew him well. You used to work with him before?

[foot fault]

Welcome back Pytda, long time no hear! I was really kind of disappointed that Tuan stop posting messages because of me and not because of you, even after I apologized to him for hitting him a little too personal. Joke lang yan ha!

Anyway, here you are again with your tirade, and I know you definitely have the balls because it’s kind of obvious that you are just using this identity to hide yourself as you don’t actually have the balls (kind of irony) to express your opinion while being who you really are. Is this your some kind of darker side? Ok, ok, Joke lang!

Most of us here really would like to hear opinions from other people as it shows that other people actually cared, whether it is appreciation, suggestion, expressing disappointment or even positive or negative criticism. But the thing is, not only that you are very quick at jumping to conclusion, which is criticizing other people, but you do not explain or elaborate more on why you come out with such an idea, it’s like judging a person without a due process. Ano ba yang spin stuff na sinasabi mo, pinaiikot ang ulo ng mga tao or yung somebody who, can find positive things despites of all the problems that are happening around?

I do not want to put words into your mouth, so please tell us why. I think we are all intelligent people here who can understand and weight your opinions, so let us be the jury. If you can’t do that, then I think your words are just craps with no substance at all, and I think most of us here will agree but are just scared to voice out as you might know them while they don’t have any idea who you are.

Anyway, I like your idea of Jeson playing at the PCA Open.

Peace out!

[pytda]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

[LitoGarcia]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

 

[reboj]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

 

parang showbiz, BLIND ITEM 

[LitoGarcia]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

 

parang showbiz, BLIND ITEM 

let us wait for the continuation of sir pytda. 

[cypher]

Funny thing is this guy is doubting something positive, crab mentality much? I guess you don't appreciate things done for the sake of tennis, if you think coach manny is spinning stuff, you haven't read much of the posts sir. This is a complete report from coach himself also adding to that, sponsors and media are reading this, and I guess they very much appreciate that inspite of the philippines losing some of its greatest potential to local tennis scene and college/universities abroad, jeson and marc for example are dreaming of becoming pros, and now are ranked in the atp. I just don't get it why you sir pytda are so focused on pca when we filipinos can already start dreaming and now believing big time tennis. To finish this up. I'm here to inform the tennis community of what good it is having players now ranked in the atp and a blow to blow analysis of games and mistakes happening in the circuit. To round it off, sir pytda don't you see the bigger picture here? All I can see is you are so closed minded on this things and that your arrogance and ignorance is eating your comments up. Sad to say, that there are really those people who are just all talk and no results. Please just go back to your tiny shell and settle on some good for nothing craps. You CRAB!


PS, sorry for the anguish.

[burosky]

hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

You must be seeing things I would guess a huge majority of people here cannot see.  Does age matter?  Does not having international exposure at a young age matter?  Does being unknown matter?  Does coming from the province matter?  I don't think any of this has anything to do with how well any player does.  If the player has all the ingredients to become a pro, none of this matters.  I think both of these players are where they are at because of their abilities.  Can you please elaborate on what you are insinuating here?  I think all of us here would like to understand.

Cypher,

Both Jeson and Marc are no longer dreaming of being a Pro.  They both are now.   

[tennisfan]

Sir Pytda, i know you've questioned about the meteoric rise of Jeson and sounded like somebody who knows up close and personal in Jeson/coach Manny's circle, so i guess this idea of spin stuff of yours probably started way back then. But for curiosity, i would like to ask you, in this particular post, do you mean this as a reaction to what coach Manny Tecson's email about what happened in the US Open and their tours in general and accomplishements to date, or you mean this spin stuff particularly about coach Manny himself in general.

But whatever it is, i think, after what coach Manny Tecson have accomplished, producing a junior player born, raised, trained and coach locally with a realistic results and potentials to become a succesful atp players (although definition of succes is debatable depending on a lot of point of views), he deserves not only respect but an explanation on why you come up with such an idea. You have to at least support your judgement!

Tsaka for clarification lang, would you rather want our top players to just play or focus in the local scene only or you just wanted them to not only venture internationally but also proved themselves locally?

[whizzard]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

Question: Does "meteoric rise" means why is he on the pro tour right now considering he wasn't active in the local scene?

[Tennis King]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

hmmm let me see... talent, good coaching and finacial backers or I'm I missing something here???

[smiley]

its okay if my words are crap, but at least an honest crap...
hmmmm...lets start slowly..how come nobody questions the meteoric rise of Jeson at age 15 from nowhere, with no international exposure at a young age, from an unknown to top two hundred in two years...quite fast especially coming from the province, ....or am i missing something....hmmmmmmm

hmmm let me see... talent, good coaching and finacial backers or I'm I missing something here???

just add- everyday training, winning matches sa tournaments and vacations!
ito ung ginagawa ko sa virtua tennis,.... or else bababa ranking     

[racketwiz]

Is it just me, or is this thread starting to wreak of sour grapes, envy and malice? 

[tommyfr]

yes this pytda went a bit personal and stinged to Tuan, who decided to leavethis board because of that (hopefully temporarily). At that time at least he, pytda, had some points and arguments. This was in  another thread, Philippines tennis future, that i started some 2 months ago.

But what he writes this time is just insinuations that to me smells very bad attitude; and some of the worst in filipino culture, crab mentality, and at the same time not speaking up, saying what you mean.

Pytda, speak out now, what do you really aim at? Did Manny give his player anabolic steroids? Did he fake the results?

If you dont open up here I favour that you be banned from this board.

Free speech is fine. Critizising someones arguments or ideas or methods is fine. Attacking corruption is honourable. But going around trolling and spitting insinuations like this is deplorable.

[tennisfan]

Pytda, speak out now, what do you really aim at? Did Manny give his player anabolic steroids? Did he fake the results?

This is a very good point but disturbing nonetheless. As Pytda refuses to speak out on what are we all missing here, this would probably be the closest that we can assume what Pytda is trying to point out.

Although there's no way coach Manny can fake the results, although he can protect or help Jeson's ranking by putting him in a safer or lower grade tournaments. But then that would be impossible for him to reach to top ten as the lower grade tournaments offer considerably much lesser ranking points. Reaching 3 finals in a Grade 1 and quarterfinal in a slam is a really big accomplishment for a junior player.

If i'm not mistaken, Alcantara went as high as #14 because of his win in Australian Open doubles, and even his 2 PHINMA titles which are grade 4 tournaments did not even help his ranking that much.

[racketwiz]

Racking your brains about what hidden meanings are contained in cryptic statements is a useless exercise, I think.

The posts we are reacting to is nothing more than conjecture at this point.  As such, it does not deserve the attention it’s been getting.  This thread is about two hardworking kids getting their shot at the pros.  For someone to hijack this thread in order to bring focus on himself, it's clear to me that he's not getting the attention he thinks he deserves from people whom he thinks should be giving it to him. Let's stop feeding into this person's mania.

I don’t give a rat’s arse about the political wrangling or personal infighting that may or may not have happened in Jeson’s “meteoric rise”.  I don’t give a flying fukc about  why Jeson in particular was plucked from the hinterlands and given the tools to get to where he is.  The kid obviously has the talent, skill and work ethic.  I don’t give a witch’s titty about how Coach Tecson got to be this kid’s mentor.  He's more than qualified to get the job done.

If anyone thinks Jeson is not deserving or Coach Tecson shouldn’t be doing the coaching, I would say quit the whining and pick your own homegrown talent and coach them into the pro tour.  The energy spent in sour graping is better spent on kids who deserve their own shot at the pros.  We’d love to have more homegrown Pinoys on the tour, regardless of where they're from, who's doing the coaching or who's paying the bills.

The bottom line is that here’s a homegrown kid who is realizing his dream of making his mark on the pro tour.  Let’s just be happy for him, applaud his successes and even share in his disappointments.  Toiling in the pro tour, especially the minors, is brutal.  The least we can do is offer Jeson and Coach Tecson our support.

In fact, Jeson and Coach Manny is more than welcome to give me a call whenever they’re playing the US circuit.  Anything I can do to help, they got it.

[rondiz09]

Funny thing is this guy is doubting something positive, crab mentality much?...

 You CRAB!
PS, sorry for the anguish.

It is already an excellent achievement for Jeson and company. Go Jeson!

By the way "I'm allergic to seafoods like shrimps and most specially CRABS!