June 25, 2008
Colombia Junior Open: Cadet Seeds Progress Safely
 Andres Villamil succesful with Joaquin Villegas in the Cadet Boys' Doubles event. Photo By: Leon Pupy |
Courtesy of ITTF It was success for Colombia's Joaquin Vilegas, Peru's Alonso Shimabukuro, Brazil's Eric Jouti and Argentina's Adriel di Salvo. In their second round encounters Joaquin Villegas defeated El Savador's Luis Mejia, Alonso Shimabukuro overcame Colombia's Andres Monroy, Eric Jouti accounted for Panama's Omer Avi-Tal and Adriel Salvo ended the hopes of a Colombian. |
Famous Name
Not just any Colombian, one with a famous name; he defeated Juan Pablo Montoya, the player who shares his name with the celebrated Formula One racing driver!
Top Pairs Through
Similarly, in the Cadet Boys' Doubles event the highly rated pairs all enjoyed victories to book quarter-final places.
Top seeds Colombia's Joaquin Villegas and Andres Villamil defeated colleagues Pablo Arango and Tomas Jaramillo, while second seeds Peru's Alonso Shimabukuro and Julio Li Davelouis overcame the host association's Alejandro Marin and Juan Pablo Montoya.
Also Successful
Success for the top two seeds and there was also for the third seeded partnerships.
Argentina's Juan Daher and Adriel di Salvo beat Colombia's Daniel Cruz and Andres Monroy, while Venezuela's Jan Medina and Marco Rosas ended the hopes of Daniel Guevara and Diego Martinez.
Same Story
Meanwhile, in the Cadet Girls' Doubles event it was the same story with three of the four highly seeded partnerships enjoying trouble free passages and the fourth having to save match points to secure victory.
Peru's Angela Mori and Maria Soto, the number one seeds, beat Colombia's Carolina Piedrahita and Vanessa Arcila in straight games as did the second seeded partnership of Ecuador's Astrid Salazar and Daniela Andrade when faced with the host nation pairing of Ximena Santiago and Laura Forero.
More Testing
Straight games success for the top two seeds but for the third seeds it was more testing. Venezuela's Gremlis Arvelo and Anny Sevilla needed four games to beat Colombia's Carolina Pena and Maria Fernana Perdomo while Ecuador's Daniela Chinizaca and Joselyn Peralta gave their colleagues heart failure.
They saved three match points before overcoming Colombia's Ana Arango and Daniela Quintero.
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