US-based tennis players Cecil Mamiit and Conrad Huey and bowler Biboy Rivera have been named by the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) as members of the elite cast of athletes that will go for glory in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.

PSC chairman Harry Angping said Saturday that there’ll be more to be named in the coming weeks or months since the agency has yet to complete all its consultative meetings with various national sports associations.

Expected to be named was Asian long jump champion Marestela Torres but the PSC had to hold back in naming Torres since athletics chief Go Teng Kok, Angping bared, has been uncooperative.

“He (Go) has been invited to meet with us on two occasions but he hasn’t showed up,” said Angping.

Angping said the PSC has consulted with tennis head Lito Villanueva and that a sum of P2 million will be given to the association for the sole purpose of getting Mamiit and Huey ready for the November 12 to 27 Asian Games.

The PSC is mandated by law to fund the participation of athletes to various international meets like the Asian Games, Southeast Asian Games and the Olympics and Angping has decided to put on a hardline stance in giving financial assistance.

“This is people’s money so I have to make sure that we fund only the deserving athletes,” said Angping. “This is no longer the Southeast Asian Games where we allow exposure of some athletes. Competition in the Asian Games is far more superior than that of the SEA Games.”

While it is the PSC that funds these trips and training exposure, the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) has the mandate over the national sports associations being the group that has control over the affairs as it is fully supported by the International Olympic Committee.

POC spokesperson Joey Romasanta, whom POC president Peping Cojuangco named as chief of mission to the Guangzhou Games, said only athletes with fighting chances of winning medals will be given the opportunity to compete.

The POC is also making the rounds of the NSAs with Moying Martelino, a member of a seven-man working group tasked to form the delegation, informing the NSAs that they have until February 15 to come up with a roster of athletes they believe can win medals in Guangzhou.