SIKAP TENNIS CUP
Division B · Men’s Singles.
OUR STORY · EST. 1999
ARCHIVAL SCAN · SIKAP TENNIS CUP
THE SPORT THAT RAISED HIM.
CHAPTER 01 · PLAZA DILAO, PACO, MANILA
1982.
Plaza Dilao, Paco, Manila. He was a ball boy at the Philippine Columbian Association. Three months picking up balls, watching matches from the edge of a court he wasn’t yet allowed to play on. Tennis found him before he found it.
CHAPTER 02 · HONG KONG
1999.
Seventeen years later, in Hong Kong, he won the Sikap Tennis Cup — Division B, Men’s Singles. Ball boy to champion. The court that raised him, finally his.
CHAPTER 03
THE COACHING YEARS.
PTR CERTIFIED INSTRUCTOR
After his playing days, he became a PTR Certified Instructor. Years of teaching the game he grew up watching from the sideline. Tennis didn’t just give him a career. It gave him a life.
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AND STILL PLAYING
From certified coach to the playing years — he never left the court.
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Philippine Columbian Association
1999 · CHAMPION
Sikap Cup, Div. B, Hong Kong
PTR · INSTRUCTOR
Certified, #63152
TODAY · PLAYER
Still on court
CHAPTER 04
THE HARD YEARS.
Six weeks of radiotherapy. Three daughters. Three flights home to Hong Kong. Somewhere between the hospital visits and the quiet slow mornings, an idea was born. Not a business plan. A way back to the court.
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FLIGHTS HOME
CHAPTER 05
THE HOMECOMING.
He’s retiring from his day job. He’s coming home to Biñan. He’s picking up a racket for good — coaching the sport that raised him. Deuce&Co. is how he does it.
MEET THE COACH →A court diagram, drawn the way he explains a point.
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0606AJAIME GATPANDAN
COACH
Ball boy at Philippine Columbian. Champion in 1999. Coach today.
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FAMILY
Played alongside him. Held the family together. Raised strong, independent daughters.
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FOUNDER
Grew up without a tennis community. Built Deuce&Co. between flights home.
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ASSISTANT COACH
Assistant to the coach. Multi-talented. Radiates the balance between learning and fun.
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COMMUNITY
Fell in love with tennis and found a community by showing up alone. Now building one for the next person who does.
CHAPTER 07 · 40–40
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DEUCE.
It’s the score when both players have won three points. Neither ahead. The next point is anyone’s. That’s where we are. The game is even. Come play.
CHAPTER 08
COME PLAY.
You don’t need a racket. You don’t need a membership. You just need a court date and someone to rally with.
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