Marissa Sanchez is a Filipino former professional

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

player. A native of

Pampanga Pampanga, officially the Province of Pampanga (; ; ), is a province in Central Luzon in the Philippines. Lying on the northern shore of Manila Bay, Pampanga is bordered by Tarlac to the north, Nueva Ecija to the northeast, Bulacan to the east, ...

, Sanchez became the top player in the Philippines for the first time in 1975, when she both the National Tennis Open and Philta Open. In 1977 she was part of the first Philippines squad to compete at the

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and was runner-up to Indonesia's

Yolanda Sumarno Yolanda Mangadil-Soemarno (born 30 July 1946) is a former tennis player. Born in North Sulawesi, Soemarno played Billie Jean King Cup, Federation Cup tennis for Indonesia between 1976 and 1981. She was the singles gold medalist at the 1977 Southe ...

in singles, with her silver medal the first of any colour attained by a Filipino at the event. She played on into the 1980s and made her last Federation Cup appearance in 1981, before retiring in her early 30s. More recently she is working as a tennis coach at the Angeles City club.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Marissa Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Filipino female tennis players 20th-century Filipino sportswomen Competitors at the 1977 SEA Games SEA Games silver medalists for the Philippines SEA Games medalists in tennis Sportspeople from Pampanga