{"id":216057,"date":"2015-12-07T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=216057"},"modified":"2015-12-07T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T20:00:16","slug":"youth-netters-are-novembers-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/youth-netters-are-novembers-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth netters are November\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-216057 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/youth-netters-are-novembers-best\/nmsa-pix-heras\/'>NMSA-pix-(Heras)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-216061'>\n\t\t\t\tHeras\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/youth-netters-are-novembers-best\/nmsa-pix-woo\/'>NMSA-pix-(Woo)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-216062'>\n\t\t\t\tWoo\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Rising youth netters Jimin Woo and Isabel Heras earned the Northern Marianas Sports Association-Tan Siu Lin Foundation Male and Female Student Athletes of the Month for November.<\/p>\n<p>Woo and Heras earned the monthly honors, given by NMSA during the group\u2019s monthly meeting at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium conference room, after their title-clinching performances in the recently concluded 7th Tan Holdings Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n<p>CNMI Junior Team member Woo brought home two junior titles after sweeping his way in the boys U12 singles and doubles crown with partner Daniel Kang.<\/p>\n<p>Woo first won the doubles crown with Kang as they made short work of the partnership of Rintaro Miyawaki and Richard Steele, 6-1, 6-2, in the finals. They advanced to the title match after a 6-0, 6-0 shutout victory over brothers Bekcham and Ravi Richards in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>The top seeded Woo, who finished third last year, then added the U12 singles trophy with a 6-0, 6-4 decision against No. 2 Seung Jin Paik.<\/p>\n<p>Woo defeated Chris Kim, 6-4, 6-0, in the quarterfinals, and had an easy 6-0, 6-2 triumph over Roman Merletti of Guam in the semis.<\/p>\n<p>Heras followed suit in the U16 girls division, winning the singles title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against second seeded Tania Tan.<\/p>\n<p>The top-ranked Heras earned a finals berth after a 6-1, 6-3 beating of Ami Tsukagoshi in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Heras, longtime CNMI tennis coach Jeff Race said, has accepted the International Tennis Federation\u2019s invitation to be part of the Pacific Oceania Touring Team.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Oceania Touring Team will be competing in the Margaret Court Cup in Wodonga, Australia next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising youth netters Jimin Woo and Isabel Heras earned the Northern Marianas Sports Association-Tan Siu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4293,8369,8330,8370],"class_list":["post-216057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chris-kim","tag-ravi-richards","tag-richard-steele","tag-roman-merletti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216057","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}