{"id":204108,"date":"2015-06-12T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=204108"},"modified":"2015-06-12T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T20:00:47","slug":"junior-tennis-players-leave-for-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/junior-tennis-players-leave-for-regionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior tennis players leave for regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Junior Tennis Team will leave for Guam this weekend as it aims to keep its reign in the ITF North Pacific Regional Championships 2015.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204116\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a attid=\"204116\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/npqpix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/npqpix-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"CNMI coach Jeff Race, center, poses with some players who will go to Guam to compete in the ITF North Pacific Regional Championships 2015 during a break in their training session at the Pacific Islands Club yesterday. (Roselyn B. Monroyo) \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-204116\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CNMI coach Jeff Race, center, poses with some players who will go to Guam to compete in the ITF North Pacific Regional Championships 2015 during a break in their training session at the Pacific Islands Club yesterday. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The squad will be leaving in two batches with Malika Miyawaki and Tania Tan going to Guam this afternoon and coach Jeff Race, Mimi Sakano, Asia Raulerson, Robbie Schorr, Ken Song, Vincent Tudela, Steven Goodwin, Haruya Eda,  Rintaro Miyawaki, Sean Lee, Seung Jin Paik, and Ji Min Woo, Conatsu and Coume Kaga, Erica Tuttle, Maria Gregoire, Isabel Heras, and Ami Tsukagoshi taking the evening flight tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all set and I am confident we can still dominate,\u201d said Race, who made a countdown for the regionals and marked each day with morale-boosting messages for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s message read \u201cDays until NPRC: 4; Never Give Up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been doing this for a month, trying to boost their confidence and mental toughness leading to the competition. Today, I told them why they should never give up even if they\u2019re way down in the match.  When you\u2019re behind, you tend to be so nervous and forget to play your game, so I told them to stay focus and keep going. It feels great to make a comeback and win,\u201d Race added.<\/p>\n<p>Race\u2019 wards has been ruling the regionals for the last seven to eight years and every competition he has to find ways to motivate the CNMI bets so that they will not be too confident come tournament time.<\/p>\n<p>In the regionals, the Commonwealth players will be challenging representatives of host Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. Participants will be playing in the boys and girls U12, U14, U16, and U18 singles and doubles. The CNMI does not have entries in the girls U18 singles and doubles and boys U16 with some of its players in those age groups deciding not to go in Guam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have solid U12 and U14 teams,\u201d Race said.<\/p>\n<p>The ITF North Pacific Regional Championships 2015 will kick off this Monday and will run until Saturday at the Rick Ninete Tennis Center in Hagatna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Junior Tennis Team will leave for Guam this weekend as it aims to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":204116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,51,2020,2964],"class_list":["post-204108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-guam","tag-jeff-race","tag-tania-tan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204108","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=204108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}