One Two Punch Cygner Sanches wins 2 games side by side...Welcome Savings Bank Becomes Single Leader With 3 Winning Runs

Aug 22, 2025

One Two Punch Cygner Sanches wins 2 games side by side...Welcome Savings Bank Becomes Single Leader With 3 Winning Runs
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Welcome Savings Bank's 「One Two Punch」 Semi Signer (Turkiye) and Daniel Sanchez (Spain) each won two games, driving their team's three consecutive wins.

Welcome Savings Bank won set score 4-1 against NH Nonghyup Card on the fifth day of the second round of the 'Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2025-2026' held at Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, on the 21st.

As a result, Welcome Savings Bank has won three consecutive games and overtook Hana Card to become the sole No. 1 (4 wins, 1 loss, 11 points). Hana Card, which tied Welcome Savings Bank with 3 wins and 1 loss until the 4th day, beat Woori Financial Capital after a close game in a full set on the same day, earning only two points and falling to second place (4 wins, 1 loss, 10 points). Crown Haitai fell to fourth place (3 wins, 2 losses, 8 points) after being caught by Harim.




Welcome Savings Bank beat NH Nonghyup Card 11-8 (10 innings) in the first set (men's doubles) by Signer working with Han Ji-seung. However, in the second set (women's doubles), Kim Ye-eun and Yong Hyun-ji lost to Kim Bo-mi and Kim Min-ah 3-9 (6 innings), making it a set score 1-1.

One Two Punch Cygner Sanches wins 2 games side by side...Welcome Savings Bank Becomes Single Leader With 3 Winning Runs
Photo courtesy=PBA
In the third set (men's singles), which is the match's winning spirit, Signer, who started again, won 15-8 (4 innings) against Cho Jae-ho, leading Welcome Savings Bank again. Sanchez, who took over the baton, beat Cho Jae-ho and Hwang Min-ji 9-3 (6 innings) in the fourth set (mixed doubles), and beat Kim Hyun-woo 1 11-2 (5 innings) in the fifth set (men's singles), completing Welcome Savings Bank's 4-1 set score victory.

Hana Card won set score 4-3 against Woori Financial Capital after a close full set match. Hana Card, which was leading 3-2 in the set score, lost to 3-9 (5 innings) by Kim Ga-young (Cambodia) in the sixth set (women's singles), but Nguyen Quoc Nguyen (Vietnam) beat Um Sang-pil 11-7 (9 innings) in the seventh set (men's singles) to win the second consecutive game.




Harim defeated Crown Haitai by a set score of 4-2 and won two consecutive games. Harim, who was trailing by a set score of 0-2, came from behind to win from the third set to the sixth set. Park Jung-hyun, who broke the team's losing streak in the last SK Rent-A-Car match, won 9-4 (3 innings) against Lim Jung-sook, leading the team to its second consecutive win. Park Jung-hyun has recently won three consecutive games in six sets.

In the other game held on the day, SK Rent-A-Car beat Huons after a close game of full set and won two consecutive games. SK Rent-A-Car won the previous three sets, but lost from the fourth set to the sixth set, putting it on the verge of reverse sweep loss. However, in the seventh set (men's singles), Ngodinnai (Vietnam) defeated Lee Sang-dae 11-9 (three innings) to complete the victory. High1 Resort won a set-score 4-1 against SY with 'Turkiye Duo'Lutfi Chenette-Burak Hashashi winning two games apiece.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.