{"id":16853,"date":"2012-05-10T07:39:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T07:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=16853"},"modified":"2012-05-10T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T07:39:56","slug":"thea-christian-top-u18-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/thea-christian-top-u18-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Thea, Christian top U18 doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Mark Rabago<br \/>\nAssociate Editor<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns118787.jpg\" alt=\"Thea Minor, left, and Christian Miller pose with their boys 18-and-under doubles championship trophies during the awards ceremony of the 2012 CNMI Junior Tennis Championships last Sunday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts. (Mark Rabago)\" width=\"52\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0As expected, top junior netters Thea Minor and Christian Miller won the boys 18-and-under doubles of the 2012 CNMI Junior Tennis Championships last Sunday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p>Minor and Miller completed a sweep of the age group by winning all four their matches in the round-robin competition.<\/p>\n<p>The duo first dispatched Seiya Eda and Amami Sakano and Carl Dela Cruz and Cris Cajigan during the tournament&#8217;s first week of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Minor and Miller beat Eda and Sakano in straight sets, 6-1, 6-0. They did get a challenge from eventual boys 15-and-under singles champion Cajigan and his runner-up Dela Cruz in the second round, but prevailed nonetheless in a score of 7-5, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>The top seeds didn&#8217;t miss a beat when play resumed last weekend, as they defeated Dylan Ackerman and Colin Ramsey, 6-1, 6-1, before making it 4-for-4 with a hard-earned 6-4, 5-7, 7-5 victory against Rafael Jones and Jake Lee.<\/p>\n<p>Eda and Sakano finished second in the division with a 3-1 mark, followed by Jones and Lee (2-2), Cajigan and Dela Cruz (1-3), and Ackerman and Ramsey (0-4).<\/p>\n<p>In the boys 13-and-under doubles, Steven Goodwin and Michael Ren reigned supreme with also an immaculate 3-0 card.<\/p>\n<p>The duo lost a grand total of one point en route to the championship. They won via walkover against Jeremy Seo and Eugene Park in their first game.<\/p>\n<p>They did have to sweat it out in their second game, a 6-0, 6-0 skunking of Rintaro Miyawaki and Kevin Kim before achieving perfection with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Michael Jones and Tony Atalig.<\/p>\n<p>Haruyo Eda and Vincent Tudela finished second in the age group at 2-1, followed by Jones and Atalig (1-2), while Seo and Park and Miyawaki and Kim ended up tied in last place (0-3).<\/p>\n<p>Neghar Rastguiy and Emily Jones, meanwhile, topped the girls 13-and-under doubles after triumphing against Tania Tan and Mimi Sakano in the finals, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>The champion duo advanced to the championship round after a 6-1, 6-4 victory over Lisa and Catherine Atalig.<\/p>\n<p>Before that, Jones and Rastguiy made quick work of Grace Choi and Hana Nelson. 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Tan and Sakano, for their part, beat Ami Tsukagoshi and Malika Miyawaki, 6-2, 6-1, to advance to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 CNMI Junior Tennis Championships was organized by the Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association with Angelo Jones serving as tournament director.<\/p>\n<p>The top finishers in the season-ending youth tourney will get ranking points. These points will be compiled by NMITA and will help determine the CNMI&#8217;s representatives to the 2012 North Pacific Qualifying Tournament in Guam in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 5 players in the ranking list in the U15 and U12 age groups and Top 4 in the U18 will earn slots on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mark Rabago Associate Editor \u00a0As expected, top junior netters Thea Minor and Christian Miller&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}