{"id":195580,"date":"2015-04-03T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=195580"},"modified":"2015-04-03T04:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:00:29","slug":"sun-palace-badminton-finalists-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sun-palace-badminton-finalists-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Palace badminton finalists set"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finals in the nine divisions of the Sun Palace Singles and Doubles Competition 2015 badminton tournament are all set with men\u2019s and women\u2019s A top seeds Andreau Galvez and Hannah Choi living up to their respective lofty billings.<\/p>\n

\"Deether<\/a>
Deether Edralin, left, and Jordan Pangilinan will try to avenge their elimination round loss to Youngson Yu and Jongmin Lee when they face off anew for the men\u2019s doubles A crown two weekends from now.
(Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Galvez will be facing Deether Edralin in the men\u2019s A finals after each dispatching Glenn Buultjens and Jordan Pangilinan in last weekend\u2019s semifinals matches. Choi and challenger Janelle Pangilinan easily arranged a women\u2019s finals showdown after both of their opponents failed to show up.<\/p>\n

Galvez needed three sets before ending Buultjens\u2019 finals bid, 21-10, 20-22, 21-17, while Edralin scored a tough 21-14, 21-16 decision against Pangilinan. Buultjens and Pangilinan will face off in the battle for third place.<\/p>\n

Newbies Daniel Kim and Mikiya Takahashi will contend for the men\u2019s C title after last year\u2019s champion A.J. Ortega was eliminated by Owen Ou, 21-17, 21-18, in their knockout match.<\/p>\n

Ou lost to Takahashi, 21-12, 23-25, 14-21, while Kim won by default against Jeremi Montenejo in the semis. Ou and Montenejo and will clash for third place honors.<\/p>\n

It will be youth versus veteran for the women\u2019s singles B crown with Havika Farro going up against Loyda Ito, while Merlie Tolentino takes on Nicole Malasarte for third place.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s C title match will be between Vilma Reyes and Irish Pagarao. Reyes easily defeated Lani Santos, 21-11, 21-11, while Pagarao pulled off a 21-14, 22-20 win over Rose Lazaro.<\/p>\n

Youngson Yu and Jongmin Lee hope to end up as the men\u2019s doubles A champions when they face Edralin and Jordan Pangilinan.<\/p>\n

Yu and Lee hacked out a tough 15-21, 21-10, 21-15 decision over Buultjens and Oh Im Bog, while Edralin and Pangilinan disposed of Galvez and Zeke Macario, 21-17, 21-18.<\/p>\n

Lee then teamed up with Oh to reach the men\u2019s doubles B finals where they will meet his father, Jun, and Hancheol Yu. Nathan Guerrero and partner Hajin Kim will face Takahashi and Daniel Kim for the men\u2019s C title.<\/p>\n

Janelle Pangilinan and Malasarte will try to end Cho and Lani Bartolome\u2019s unbeaten run when they collide in the women\u2019s A finals. Malasarte will then team up with Farro when they take on Maryln Montano and Lucelle Lampera for the women\u2019s B crown.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s C finals will be between Reyes and Baby Banadera against Santos and partner Gigi Zapanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The finals in the nine divisions of the Sun Palace Singles and Doubles Competition 2015…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":195582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2869,3522,3523,1780],"class_list":["post-195580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-deether-edralin","tag-janelle-pangilinan","tag-jordan-pangilinan","tag-sun-palace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195580","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}