{"id":20457,"date":"2012-05-28T02:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T02:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=20457"},"modified":"2012-05-28T02:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T02:29:30","slug":"sweeps-in-opener-of-badminton-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sweeps-in-opener-of-badminton-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweeps in opener of badminton tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"font-size: 13px; border-style: none;\" alt=\"Joel Ortega, seen here in a tournament played last March, was one of the opening day winners in the IT&amp;E singles and doubles competition at the NMBA Gym. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns119234.jpg\" width=\"64\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Five pairs opened their campaign in the IT&amp;E Singles &amp; Mixed Doubles Badminton Tournament 2012 with a bang after sweeping their respective foes at the NMBA Gym at the TSL Sports Complex in Gualo Rai.<\/p>\n<p>In the mixed doubles C division games on May 19, Luis Camacho and Lani Santos defeated Ji Min Lee and Hyun Sook Lee in two games, 21-17, 21-18, while Panapa Peteru and Rose Lazaro survived Sang Do Park and Ae Im Myung, 24-21, 23-21.<\/p>\n<p>In the mixed doubles B, all three opening games were decided in two games with Rodwealth Espana and Elna Curate winning over Arie Cordero and Jaja Samonte, 21-15, 21-14; Joel and Alma Ortega beating Brandon Talania and Cris Obaldo, 21-8, 21-14; and Celso Agui and Loyda Ito downing Ramir Belialba and Christy Villaflore, 21-18, 21-8.<\/p>\n<p>In the lone mixed doubles A match, Sam Jones and Ito swept Espana and Shirley Kim, 21-18, 21-16.<\/p>\n<p>In the singles division, four games were played in the opening day with Talania, Kanata Omori, Jane Tupas, and Saul Gargallo recording separate wins. Talania edged Joel Ortega, 21-18, 14-21, 21-8, and Omori triumphed over Jeff Riman, 21-19, 21-7 in the in the men&#8217;s singles C; Tupas swept Roma Barlao in the women&#8217;s singles C, 21-8, 21-12; and Gargallo slipped past Noli Santos in the men&#8217;s singles A, 21-6, 18-21, 21-15.<\/p>\n<p>In Day 2 of the opening week of the IT&amp;E-backed tournament, two of the three games in the mixed doubles C were won after two games, while all four matches in the mixed doubles B were completed also after only two games. The only tiff in the mixed doubles A was played in three games with Santos and Annarose Omori surviving Glenn Bluutjens and Annette Ta, 12-21, 21-19, 21-17.<\/p>\n<p>In the singles division, six players posted wins via sweeps. The list includes men&#8217;s C&#8217;s Ortega and Midori Obi, men&#8217;s B&#8217;s Wowie Abuel, men&#8217;s A&#8217;s Jones and Ferdie Arago, and women&#8217;s A&#8217;s Hannah Choi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five pairs opened their campaign in the IT&amp;E Singles &amp; Mixed Doubles Badminton Tournament 2012&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[98,99,100,101],"class_list":["post-20457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-jeff-riman","tag-kanata-omori","tag-noli-santos","tag-saul-gargallo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457","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=20457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}