00:00Silipin naman natin ngayon ang mga naging kaganapan sa pagbubukas ng Philippine Satellite 1-2026 sa Squash Center sa loob
00:07ng Rizal Memorial Sports Complex sa Maynila.
00:10Para sa detalye, narito report ni Paulo Salamatid.
00:15Nang simula na kahapon na aksyon ng mga Philippine Squash players sa opisyal na pagbubukas ng Philippine Satellite 1-2026
00:23sa Philippine Squash Center sa Maynila.
00:26Ito ang kauna-unahang international event ng National Squad ngayong taon, katapat ang ilang mga magagaling na squash players mula
00:33sa bansang Malaysia at South Korea.
00:35Sa panayam ng PTV Sports, ibinahagi ng foreign coach ng Philippine Squash team na si Wewer Lowe na malaking bagay
00:42ang mga ganitong klaseng torneo para sa kanilang kupunan, lalo na para sa kanilang mga junior players.
00:56Obviously, did not win today. Maybe we're hoping for a bit, some of the matches to be a little bit
01:00closer.
01:01But the players that we have that lost today are not on the professional circuit.
01:05So this is sort of an experience for them to play actually full-time players, especially players from Malaysia as
01:11well.
01:11This time, we are actually quite fortunate to have, I think, about seven or eight Malaysians coming for the Philippine
01:18Satellite,
01:18which is the first time that there are so many of them here.
01:21So it's a good experience for our players to play against probably the best in the region.
01:27Dagdag pa ng kanilang foreign coach, maganda o man ang pagsubok ito para sa kanilang kupunan,
01:32matapos ng kanilang kampanya sa nagalap ng Southeast Asian Games noong Desyembre ng nakarang taon sa Thailand.
01:39Yeah, I mean, so far this is the first tournament that we have this year, both in the country or
01:43outside.
01:44Our players, the senior players have not competed outside the country yet since the SEA Games.
01:49So this is actually the first event up since the SEA Games.
01:52It's good to sort of test themselves again. You know, everybody had a bit of a break over Christmas.
01:56And New Year's. So we started a new training block. And this is the first event.
02:00So it's good to have, like I said, the Malaysians here coming all the way here to compete against us.
02:05So it's good competition. And moving forward, we'll have a couple more tournaments hopefully in the near future.
02:12Ngayong araw, nakataktang ipagpatuloy ang igalawang araw ng kompetisyon,
02:16kung saan nakataktang sumalang ang elite men's and women's at junior players.
02:20Paolo Salamatin, para sa Atletang Pilipino, para sa Bagong Pilipinas.
