Philippine darts star Janice Penero Hinojales must be feeling at home whenever she plays in Malaysia.
The Philippines top player after winning the 2024 Cosmo Malaysian Open Dart Championships singles titles last year, has been on an unbeaten streak here.
On Friday (May 9), she bagged the Selangor Open Darts Championships women singles title in such fine style when she bagged the coveted trophy by outclassing Japanese star Mayu Shimuzu 4-0 in the final.
On Saturday, she once again was her very best when she partnered her countrywoman Karen Lapiz to win the doubles title.
Both the Filipinos were in fine form and they dispatched Thailand's top pair of Ornong Boonyanit and Archaraphon Singda in the final. The duo took home the main prize of RM1,000 besides the championship trophies.
The losing semifinalists were the Malaysian duo of Nur Sazleena Muliyon and Noor Shamiza while the Philippine-Thai pair of Aileen Oclarit-Warakorn completed the top four line-up.
Meanwhile, in the men's doubles event, Muhammad Haikal Rusli overcame the disappointment of losing the single title on Friday.
Muhammad Haikal, who lost to Ryusei Azemoto of Japan in the singles event, this time cam eback strongly with his partner Anbaarajan Retinasaamy to bag the double title and went home with the top prize RM1,500 plus championship trophies.
In the doubles final, the Anbaarajan-Muhammad Haikal combo defeated their Malaysian compatriot Zulrizan Azdan-Khairul Idzuan Maamor. The newly-crowned champions were in superb form throughout the day enroute to their title.
The losing finalist in the men's doubles competition were the pair of Cola Yong-Loi Nai Pin together with Tenooth Sivalingam-Mohd Faizal.
For the record, the Selangor Open is the first WDF ranked event in Malaysia in 2025 which will be followed by Cosmo Malaysia Open 2025 (WDF silver ranked category) on 22-24th August.
Some of the world's best darters have already confirmed their participation for this year's tournament which comes under the WDF bronze category and the competition for top prizes is expected to be red-hot.
Besides the best bulls-eye specialists from Malaysia, top darters from Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Japan will also be vying for the top honours in the tournament. The teams from Sabah and Sarawak were big in number and are also expected to be among the frontrunners in the next two days.
The red-hot competition, continues on Sunday (May 11) as the darters do battle for the team competition, the highlight of the event, with so many teams are in the running for the main title and fans can except another swashbuckling day for darts.
