August 14, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Chezka Centeno fell in need of a gold-medal feat within the World Video games in Chengdu, China on a 7-6 heartbreaker versus Chinese language Han Yu within the ladies’s pool finals yesterday.
After battling from 0-3, 3-4 and 4-5 deficits, Centeno took management, 6-5, earlier than blinking and shedding her contact that allowed Han to steal the match and the gold.
It was candy revenge for Han, who misplaced to the 26-year-old Centeno within the finals of the World 10-Ball Championship in Klagenfurt, Austria two years in the past.
Not even the presence of Filipino world-beaters like Efren “Bata” Reyes, Francisco “Django” Bustamante and Rubilen Amit may assist avert Centeno’s fall.
And itt was a end result that prevented Centeno from becoming a member of the ranks of fellow cue artist Carlo Biado and karateka Junna Tsukii as Filipino World Video games gold winners.
Biado gained his in Wroclaw, Poland in 2017 whereas Tsukii struck in Birmingham, Alabama three years in the past.
In kickboxing, Paris Olympian boxer Hergie Bacyadan’s personal gold bid fizzled out in succumbing to Portuguese Catarina Dias, 2-1, of their semifinal showdown within the ladies’s K1 -70-kilogram class.
The Asian champion from Kalinga Apayao will go for the bronze as a substitute versus Serbian Aleksandra Krstic, who misplaced to Israeli Polina Grossman, 3-0, right now.
Centeno’s silver was the nation’s third medal in Chengdu following an earlier silver by Kaila Napolis in jiu-jitsu and Carlos Baylon’s bronze in wushu.
