{"id":825459,"date":"2026-07-25T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825459\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:33:31","slug":"kotikula-kukreti-seal-hilado-j60-world-tennis-final-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825459\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotikula, Kukreti seal Hilado J60 World Tennis final showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Second seed Ryu Kotikula of Thailand marched to the final after beating Aaradhya Mhasde, 6-0, 6-4, Saturday in the first leg of the Oscar J. Hilado J60 World Tennis Championship\u00a0at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old Kotikula, ranked No. 675, will face unseeded Daksh Kukreti of India, who prevailed over compatriot and seventh seed Ribhav Saroha, 2-6, 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls division, top seed Yerin Lee of Korea defeated Sorvisa Kulphisanrat of Thailand, 6-1, 6-2, to forge a title showdown with Taylah Lessue of Australia in the\u00a0\u00a0the event offering World Tennis (formerly International Tennis Federation) points.<\/p>\n<p>The second-seeded Lessue downed fourth seed Seojin Park, 6-4, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest news<br \/>\n                <br class=\"br-line\"\/><br \/>\n                delivered to your inbox<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for The Manila Times newsletters<\/p>\n<p>            By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/terms-of-service\" title=\"Terms of Service\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manilatimes.net\/privacy-policy\" title=\"Privacy Policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now on its 18th edition, the\u00a0\u00a0annual tournament has been renamed in honor of the late PHINMA Corp. Chairman Emeritus Oscar J. Hilado in recognition of his lifelong support for and contributions to Philippine tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Past champions include Alexandra Eala, Francis Casey Alcantara, John Bryan Otico, Arthur Craig Pantino, Khim Iglupas, Tennielle Madis and Stefi Marithe Aludo. TMT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Second seed Ryu Kotikula of Thailand marched to the final after beating Aaradhya Mhasde, 6-0,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,3644,284791,284792,288478,288479,25715,95337,82,593,3275],"class_list":["post-825459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-final","tag-hilado","tag-j60","tag-kotikula","tag-kukreti","tag-seal","tag-showdown","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}