The Philippine Star
August 13, 2025 | 12:00am
CHENGDU, China – Group Philippines bought the motivation and inspiration wanted because it made a remaining push within the 2025 World Video games, with 10-ball contender Chezka Centeno advancing to the semifinals and the lads’s floorball staff scoring a large win in opposition to the host nation Tuesday.
Later, wushu wager Carlos Baylon Jr. delivered an impressed efficiency in entrance of a large and enthusiastic crowd, dominating Islam Karimov of Kazakhstan, 2-0, to win the bronze.
The 26-year-old Centeno, the 2023 World 10-Ball champion, beat Spain’s Mayte Ropero, 7-2, and can face Shasha Liu of China, the three-time 9-ball titlist, within the essential spherical at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
“I’m assured as a result of I’ve overwhelmed Shasha a number of instances earlier than,” Centeno mentioned. “I’ll do my finest to advance to the ultimate and take house the gold medal.”
For her half, Liu defeated Soledad Ayala, 7-4, within the quarterfinals.
Kickboxing’s Hergie Bacyadan, who competed within the Paris Olympics as a boxer, was nearly as good as marketed, scoring a 3-0 win over Valentina Keri of Hungary within the ladies’s K1 70kg quarterfinals.
Bacyadan, the delight of Kalinga Province, booked a semis duel versus Portugal’s Catarina Dias on Wednesday at 8:15 p.m.
“I’ll do my finest and examine my opponent,” mentioned Bacyadan, who reached the Spherical of 16 in Paris final 12 months.
Centeno and the remainder of the Filipino athletes and staff officers are supported by the Philippine Olympic Committee, headed by president Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino and the Philippine Sports activities Fee.
Over on the Xindu Xiangcheng Sports activities Centre, the lads’s floorball staff demolished China, 14-0, of their classification match for seventh place to shut out its marketing campaign on a excessive be aware regardless of lopsided losses to European groups in earlier days.
The victory may ease up the stress on the shoulders of the remaining gamers right here, with jiu-jitsu 52-kilogram silver medalist Kaila Napolis and Annie Ramirez bidding adieu within the ladies’s open ne-waza contest early within the day.