By now, it’s clear that the present and future will have Filipina athletes figuring prominently, and most likely, leading the way in helping the Philippines gain more relevance in the global sporting landscape.
Filipina athletes made a lot of inroads in 2021. It was a year they took center stage and carried the weight of Philippine sports on their brave, overachieving shoulders. The enormity of their accomplishments was but an indication that the ceiling to what they could still achieve had not been breached, if there even was a ceiling to speak of.
But Diaz is no ordinary athlete. She became the Asian Games champion in Jakarta in 2018. Not content with a silver in the Olympics, she bagged the Philippines’ first ever gold medal in Tokyo. And right before 2022 ended, she became the country’s first ever gold medal winner in the In front of the home crowd in July, the Filipinas also awakened a nation to the beautiful game by winning the AFF Women’s Championship, the first time a Philippine team emerged champion in a major football competition.
In September, Eala put on a dominant display of powerful groundstrokes, a steady game, and cerebral shot placement to become theThe historic run – which made Eala the only Philippine tennis player to bag a singles title in a junior Grand Slam event – proved to be even more impressive as she defeated all her six opponents in straight sets
Last April, she captured her second pro career title by winning a W25 ITF competition in Chiang Rai. She had won her first pro singles title the year prior in Manacor, Spain. A native of Iloilo who took up Jiujitsu only in 2014, Custodio already earned a silver in the 2016 Jiujitsu Federation World Championship held in Long Beach. California.
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