Alcantara, who hails from Cagayan de Oro, a city in Northern Mindanao, teamed up with Cheng Peng Hsei of Chinese-Taipei to win the Junior Boy's Doubles finals today at the 2009 Australian Open in Melbourne --- the feat making him the first-ever Filipino to lift a title at a Grand Slam. The 7th-seeded Filipino-Taiwanese tandem crushed the pair of Mikhal Biryukov from Russia and Yasutaka Uchiyama from Japan in straight sets 6-4, 6-2. Before reaching the finals, Alcantara and his partner dispatched the Austrian teens Maximilian Neuchrist & Tristan-Samuel Weissborn 7-6(4), 6-4 in a semifinal match held yesterday.
Francis Casey Alcantara: Champion in 2009 Australian Open Junior Boy's Doubles
Alcantara, currently ranked No. 26 in world juniors, is also entered at the Junior Boy's Singles as the seed no. 10 but succumbed easily to an unranked player Daniel Berta of Sweden 6-3, 6-4 in the first round. He recently took the grade-four Phinma International Junior Tennis Championship last month and won various doubles competitions in Thailand and Morocco.
Francis Casey Alcantara: Champion in 2009 Australian Open Junior Boy's Doubles
Alcantara, currently ranked No. 26 in world juniors, is also entered at the Junior Boy's Singles as the seed no. 10 but succumbed easily to an unranked player Daniel Berta of Sweden 6-3, 6-4 in the first round. He recently took the grade-four Phinma International Junior Tennis Championship last month and won various doubles competitions in Thailand and Morocco.
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