Johnny Arcilla

Johnny Arcilla is a Filipino tennis player who represents the Philippines in international competition, born on February 15, 1980. He started as a ball boy in Butuan at the age of five, was coached only by his father, began competing in tournaments at seven and moved to Manila by himself at twelve. He won his first men's singles title at the Philippine Columbian Association Open Tennis Championship in 2001 and won it nine more times between 2006 and 2022, for ten titles in all. He won a bronze medal at the 2001 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur and four medals at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad. As a pickleball player he joined the Cebuana Lhuillier Gems for the inaugural season of the Pickle Yard Conference League in 2026.