{"id":215756,"date":"2015-12-02T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=215756"},"modified":"2015-12-02T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:00:29","slug":"woo-wins-two-titles-in-juniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/woo-wins-two-titles-in-juniors\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo wins two titles in juniors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_215771\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215771\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tan-pix.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tan-pix-143x300.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ji Min Woo serves to Seung Jin Paik during their boys U12 title match in the 7th Annual Tan Holdings Tennis Classic last Sunday at the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan tennis courts. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CNMI Junior Team member Ji Min Woo had a fruitful stint in the opening week of the 7th Annual Tan Holdings Tennis Classic as he brought home two juniors championships.<\/p>\n<p>Woo first notched the boys U12 doubles crown with Daniel Kang after they defeated Rintaro Miyawaki and Richard Steele, 6-1, 6-2, in the finals last Sunday at the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan tennis courts. Woo and Kang made it to the title match after blanking siblings Bekcham and Ravi Richards, 6-0, 6-0. The Richards marched into the semis following a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Conrad Bao and Jaehoon Son at the top half of the draw.<\/p>\n<p>At the lower half, Miyawaki and Steele eased past Min Jin Cho and Seung Won Lee, 6-0, 6-0, to barge into the finals. Cho and Lee earlier ousted Andrew Chung and Min Gi Jung, 6-4, 7-5, to arrange a semis duel against Miyawaki and Steele and they went on to finish in the Top 3 after prevailing against the Richards, 6-2, 2-2 (retired).<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U12 singles, Woo won the battle between the Top 2 seeds in the division. Woo, who is seeded first in the draw, clinched the singles crown after outclassing the second-ranked Seung Jin Paik,  6-0, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Woo, placed only third in last year\u2019s tournament, boosted his chances for a better finish this year after beating topping Chris Kim in the quarterfinals, 6-4, 6-0, and crushing Guam\u2019s Roman Merletti in the semis, 6-0, 6-2. Paik, on the other hand, lorded it over Min Jin Cho, 6-0, 6-0, and Kang, 6-2, 6-1, to force a finals showdown against Woo.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Carol Lee ruled the co-ed U18 singles division after winning over Luther Lizama, 6-4, 6-2, and Colin Ramsey, 6-1, 6-2.  Lizama finished second following his 6-4, 6-3 victory over Ramsey in the round-robin contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI Junior Team member Ji Min Woo had a fruitful stint in the opening week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":215771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8368,8478,8369,8370],"class_list":["post-215756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-jaehoon-son","tag-min-jin-cho","tag-ravi-richards","tag-roman-merletti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215756","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=215756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}