{"id":202080,"date":"2015-05-19T04:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=202080"},"modified":"2015-05-19T04:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T18:10:20","slug":"7-survive-jr-itf-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/7-survive-jr-itf-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"7 survive Jr. ITF qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven made the grade in the rain-delayed qualifying tournament of the 2015 IT&E Northern Marianas Junior Championships to enter the main draw of the Junior ITF event.<\/p>\n

In the boys singles, Hong Kong\u2019s Denton Ho, Japan\u2019s Yusuke Miyai and Rintaro Oka, and Germany\u2019s Marvin Bockers prevailed in yesterday\u2019s qualifying games to make it to the main draw, while Chisato Hayakawa, Haruka Hoshino, and Yumi Takemura had the same feat in the girls division.<\/p>\n

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Korea\u2019s Justin Cheung returns to Japan\u2019s Haruka Aomizu during their game in the qualifying tournament for the 2015 IT&E Northern Marianas Junior Championships yesterday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ho drew a bye in the first round and defeated the CNMI\u2019s Ken Song in the second round, 6-0, 6-0, to advance to the main draw. Song moved a win away from bagging a main draw seat after eliminating fellow Commonwealth player Vincent Tudela, 3-6, 7-6 (1), 10-6, in the upper half bracket pairing.<\/p>\n

In other upper half bracket results, Miyai clinched a main draw berth following his victories over the U.S.\u2019s Kyler Jirasook, 6-1, 6-1, and Singapore\u2019s Gabriel Chum.<\/p>\n

In the bottom half of the draw, Oka swept his two foes to soldier on. He first shut out the CNMI\u2019s Steven Goodwin, 6-0, 6-0 before topping Australia\u2019s Brandon Truong, 6, 1, 6-0. Truong won his opening game against the Philippines\u2019 Julian Dayrit, 6-4, 6-0.<\/p>\n

Bockers duplicated Oka\u2019s sweeps as the former eased past the CNMI\u2019s Haruya Eda, 6-0, 6-0, before ousting South Korea\u2019s Justin Cheung, 6-0, 6-3.<\/p>\n

In the girls division, Hakayawa downed fellow Japanese Minori Otsuka, 6-1, 6-4; Hoshino thwarted Riho Yuasa, 6-4, 7-6 (8); and Takemura edged Risako Umekuni, 7-5, 6-1, to join Aki Miyazaki in the main draw. Miyazaki drew a bye in the qualifier, automatically advancing to the main draw.<\/p>\n

The girls singles\u2019 main draw was released yesterday with Japan\u2019s Ayumi Hirata and the Philippines\u2019 Maria Dominique Ong getting the Top 2 seeds in the 32-player field. Hirata is scheduled to face the CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee today.<\/p>\n

Lee will be joined in the main draw by fellow Commonwealth players Mikayla Lopez, Negahr Rastguiy, Tammy Ackerman, Ami Tsukagoshi, Julia Ishikawa, Isabel Heras, and Mimi Sakano. Completing the CNMI roster are wild card entries Tania Tan and Maliwa Miyawaki, while players from Singapore, U.S., Hong Kong, Palau, and Japan are also in the main draw.<\/p>\n

In the boys division, the Top 2 seeds are Hong Kong\u2019s Ching Lam and Australia\u2019s Jesse Delaney. The CNMI\u2019s Luther Lizama, Michael Ren, Tommy Choi, and Robbie Schorr are the wild card entries and will have their opening games in the Grade 5 event today.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s matches will be played at the Pacific Islands Club and Kanoa Resort courts. Yesterday, qualifying games took place at the American Memorial Park tennis courts due to the wet courts at PIC. Matches were also delayed with the first one starting past 11am instead of 8:30am because of the intermittent rain yesterday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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