Surprising winners at start of Asian Tour weekend in Philippines

On Saturday, the titles on the PDC Asian Tour surprisingly went to Rosendo Lubaton and Ryan Khristoffer Condat. Both Filipinos won their first Asian Tour title.

The first tournament of the day was won by Lubaton. The latter was 5-2 too strong for seven-time World Championship participant Lourence Ilagan in the final.

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Lubaton then lost at the last 32 in the second tournament of the day. Still, it remained a Filipino sweep, the last eight featured as many as seven players of Filipino nationality. The final, however, was between Filipino Ryan Khristoffer Condat and Indian darter Nitin Kumar. Condat proved too strong for Kumar in the final 5-2.

Results PDC Asian Tour 7

Quarterfinals

Donjem Dimaculangan 4-3 Christian Perez

Rosendo Lubaton 4-2 Aris Quijano

Lourence Ilagan 4-2 Sonny Balagat

Mark Anthony Opada 4-1 Benjamin Collin Ceasar

Semi-Finals

Rosendo Lubaton 4-2 Aris Quijano

Lourence Ilagan 5-2 Mark Anthony Opada

Final

Rosendo Lubaton 5-2 Lourence Ilagan

Results PDC Asian Tour 8

Quarter-Final

Donjem Dimaculangan 4-2 Christian Perez

Ryan Khristoffer Condat 4-2 Adrian Ray Marcelino

Noel Malicdem 4-3 John Eric Flaris

Nitin Kumar 4-1 Mark Anthony Opada

Semifinals

Ryan Khristoffer Condat 5- 4 Donjem Dimaculangan

Nitin Kumar 5-4 Noel Malicdem

Final

Ryan Khristoffer Condat 5-2 Nitin Kumar