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Francis Casey Alcantara, Pruchya Isaro booted out in Jakarta doubles semis

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Lawn  Tennis Association of Thailand on Facebook" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/04/15/20230415-lawn-tennis-association-of-thailand-fb.jpg"/><figcaption>Thai Pruchya Isaro and Filipino Francis Casey Alcantara. <em>Lawn Tennis Association of Thailand on Facebook</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA – Francis Casey Alcantara of the Philippines and Pruchya Isaro of Thailand were dealt with a semifinal upset loss on Friday at the M25 Jakarta tournament in Indonesia.</p><p>At the Sultan Hotel Tennis Court, which has an outdoor hard surface, the No. 4 seeds fell to Yunseong Chung and Yeongseok Jeong of South Korea, 2-6, 4-6.</p><p>After being broken in the opening game, Alcantara and Isaro committed a love service hold to trail at 1-2.</p><p>Chung and Jeong continued to hold serve for a 4-2 lead, and were bent on extending their edge by earning four break points in the following game.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/03/18/23/alcantara-thai-partner-cop-new-delhi-doubles-title">Tennis: Francis Casey Alcantara cops New Delhi doubles title with Thai partner</a></li></ul><p>The Filipino and Thai, who have won two ITF doubles titles together, saved one break point opportunity before yielding the seventh game, 2-5.</p><p>The South Koreans quickly served out the first set, 6-2, while at 40-15.</p><p>An early break of serve in the second set by Chung and Jeong caused Alcantara and Isaro to trail once more, 1-3.</p><p>This was followed by two exchanges of service breaks, with Chung and Jeong advancing to 5-3.</p><p>Alcantara and Isaro managed to hold while serving to stay in the match, 4-5, while Chung and Jeong earned three match points as they were serving for a place in the final.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/04/09/23/tennis-alcantara-chinese-ace-lose-in-singapore-doubles-final">Francis Casey Alcantara, Chinese ace lose in Singapore doubles final</a></li></ul><p>The game went to 40-40, and the South Koreans won the deciding point, 6-4, to reach the final versus Japanese No. 3 seeds Makoto Ochi and Yuta Shimizo.</p><p>The unseeded Chung and Jeong emerged as the champions with an impressive come-from-behind win, 4-6, 7-6(1), 10-8.</p><p>In the first round of the ITF $25,000 event, Alcantara and Isaro eliminated Blake Bayldon of Australia and Maximus Jones of Thailand, 7-5, 6-4.</p><p>They went on triumph in the quarterfinals, 6-3, 2-6, 11-9, over Justin Barki of Indonesia and Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands, with the Filipino-Thai tandem coming back from 1-5 in the super tiebreak and converting a match point on their third attempt. </p><p>Meanwhile, another Filipino doubles specialist competed this week on the ATP Challenger Tour.</p><p>Ruben Gonzales teamed up with Alex Lawson of the United States for a quarterfinal result in the León Challenger held at the Club Campestre de León in Guanajuato, Mexico.</p><p>In the opening round of the clay tournament, the second seeds defeated Renzo Olivo and Thiago Agustin Tirante of Argentina, 6-7(6), 6-4, 10-6.</p><p>They lost to Maximilian Neuchrist of Austria and Michail Pervolarakis of Greece in the quarters on Friday, 7-6(3), 3-6, 6-10.</p><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cNO9FvC6_6c?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>

Francis Casey Alcantara of the Philippines and Pruchya Isaro of Thailand were dealt with a semifinal upset loss on Friday at the M25 Jakarta tournament in Indonesia.