valuable experience, Manzano served under six PHILTA Presidents since 1968 and received several awards including the Philippine Sportswriters Association for Distinguished Service to Tennis. He credits Lope Yngayo for his training.

The members of the National Executive Committee are Salvador H. Andrada, National President; Manuel D. Misa, Executive Vice-President; Romeo S. Magat, Secretary General; Rodolfo R. Pineda, Treasurer; Juan O. Marfil, Jr., Auditor & VP for Rules & Regulations; Luis Antonio C. Mendoza, VP Interclub Affairs & South of Manila; Antonio B. Abad Santos, VP North of Manila; Pablo S. Bautista, VP Veterans Affairs; and Edna V. Floro VP Youth Development.

The National Board of Advisers are Jose Antonio U. Gonzales, Chairman and Oscar J. Hilado, Vice-Chairman. The Regional Vice-Presidcents are: Nestor Corpuz of Laoag City; Felix Manubay of Isabela; Luis Espiritu of Cavite; Raul Acuna of Legaspi City; Antonio sison, Jr. of Naga City; Michael John Cumagun of Negros Occidental; Ervin Bautista of Panay island; Bunny Pages of Cebu City; Rafael Omega of Tacloban City; Hamsirani Ombre of Zamboanga City; Rogelio Ong Yiu of Butuan City and Nicolas Fernandez of Davao City.

The country’s current top players are: Joseph Lizardo, a highly determined and hardworking player; Robert Angelo, an intelligent and gritty player; Camoy Palahang, a skillful and self-made college graduate of San Beda College; student Alexander Toledo, Pio Tolentino, the PCA winner of 1993, and Michael Misa, an Accounting Major from UST. They made up the team that defeated Japan in the 1995 Davis Cup Tie. Lizardo defeated Japan’s Shozu Matsuoka in singles play. Matsuoka reached the quarter finals of Wimbledon in 1995 whose career wins include former world champion Stefan Edberg and Goran Ivanisevic.

The Women’s Division are led by Francesca Uriarte La’O, who recently accepted a scholarship at the University of California at Berkeley; the talented 16 years old and currently one of Asia’s best juniors, Maricris Fernandez; Joanna Feria, a former junior track and field star and "cum laude" graduate in Business & Psychology at the Northwestern University in Illinois; Jennifer Saret, another scholar-athlete at Brigham Young University; up and coming Pamela Floro and Marisue Jacutin.