{"id":187048,"date":"2014-12-10T04:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=187048"},"modified":"2014-12-10T04:00:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:00:58","slug":"sweet-revenge-dunlop-rosario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sweet-revenge-dunlop-rosario\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet revenge for Dunlop, Rosario"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marivic Rosario goes for a smash, while teammate Dun Dunlop stays back during their title game against David Lai and Lydia Tan in the mixed doubles 40-and-above division of the 6th Tan Holdings Tennis Classic last Sunday at the Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nIt\u2019s payback time for the pair of Dun Dunlop and Marivic Rosario as they led two other mixed doubles winners in the 6th Tan Holdings Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n

Dunlop and Rosario took home the mixed doubles 40-and-above championship, following a 6-3, 6-4 win over Lydia Tan and Guam\u2019s David Lai last Sunday at the Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan. The victory avenged Rosario and Dunlop\u2019s loss to the same duo in last year\u2019s finale. Tan and Lai outclassed Rosario and Dunlop in their three-set title match in 2013, 6-3, 6-7 (7-5), 6-3.<\/p>\n

Dunlop and Rosario, who were unseeded in the six-team draw earned a return trip to the finals after eliminating two foes. The winning pair first booted out Joy Minor and Lope Padilla last Saturday morning, 6-2, 4-6, 11-9, at the Hyatt Regency Saipan tennis courts and then moved to Fiesta in the afternoon to oust George Lai and Sally Lee, 6-0, 6-4.<\/p>\n

David Tai and Tan, on the other hand, drew a bye in the first round for taking the top seed in the division and earned the second finals berth after slipping past Eddie Wu and Cleofe Santos in three sets, 6-3, 4-6, 10-6.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the mixed open 4.0 finale also went the distance with Joy Minor and Buddy Garote surviving their more than four-hour marathon match against Rosario and Diony Peralta, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5). <\/p>\n

The mixed open 4.0 title duel was a battle of unranked pairs with Minor and Garote stunning the top-seeded duo of Mihoko and Jim Tuttle, 7-5, 6-2. The Tuttle couple automatically advanced to the semis after drawing a bye in the first round, while Minor and Garote had to prevail against Reo and Sadako Arriola in another three-set match, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 10-1, to march into the semis of the upper half of the draw.<\/p>\n

In the lower half of the draw, Rosario and Dunlop also pulled off an upset in three sets over the second-seeded Sally Lee and Erik Van Der Maas, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8. Peralta and Rosario arranged a semis tiff against Van Der Maas and Lee following a 6-4, 6-3 win over junior players Julia Ishikawa and Ken Song.<\/p>\n

In the mixed doubles 3.0, the junior pair of Tania Tan and Clayton Izuka ruled the round-robin competition.<\/p>\n

Tan and Izuka got a free win against Ron and Fish Wright (default) last Sunday to clinch the division championship. The winning duo earlier defeated the mother and son tandem of Merle and A.J. Hudkins, 6-1, 6-4, last Saturday to boost its title bid. The Hudkins settled for runner-up honors as they also downed the Wrights last Friday, 6-3, 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s payback time for the pair of Dun Dunlop and Marivic Rosario as they led…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":187052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1393,233,735],"class_list":["post-187048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-clayton-izuka","tag-hyatt-regency-saipan","tag-julia-ishikawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187048","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}