{"id":216385,"date":"2015-12-10T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=216385"},"modified":"2015-12-10T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:00:29","slug":"lee-marches-into-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lee-marches-into-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee marches into finals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carol Lee stretches for a return during her singles match against Colin Ramsey during the Week 1 of the 7th Tan Holdings Tennis Classic at the Fiesta Resort & Spa Saipan. She is now in Australia and will play in the finals of the consolation draw. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CNMI junior player Carol Lee continued to fight off injury as she advanced to the finals of the consolation draw of the 2015 14\/U Australian Championships.<\/p>\n

Lee notched two more victories on the west bracket of the singles event to set up a finals showdown against Megan Smith of Queensland. The 13-year-old defeated New South Wales\u2019 Bojana Marinkov in the quarterfinals, 6-1, 6-0, last Tuesday at the Melbourne Park, and then swept South Australia\u2019s Tiana Glazbrook, 6-0, 6-3, yesterday to march into the finals against the sixth-ranked Smith.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s wins against Marinkov and Glazbrook were her second and third and came a few days after she nearly pulled out of the tournament due to a knee injury. The Pacific\u2019s highest-ranked player (Junior ITF) suffered a knee strain in the third set of her opening round match in the main draw against the No. 2 Madison Bishop of South Australia last Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy left upper knee got hurt. I had a long rally and may have outstretched my muscles. My knee cramped at first and I tried to let go by shaking my leg. But it got worse and after that I couldn\u2019t really walk and balance well,\u201d said Lee in a message sent to Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n

Lee was serving and leading at 5-3 in the deciding set when she was forced to withdraw. She lost the first set, 4-6, but extended the match with a 6-4 victory in the second.<\/p>\n

With Lee giving up the win, Bishop made it all the way to the semifinals before bowing to Annerly Poulos, 3-6, 6-3, 5-7. Lee, on the other hand, dropped to the main consolation draw and was up on her feet again, dominating Western Australia\u2019s Hayley O\u2019Donnell, 6-1, 6-1, and South\u2019s Leonora Radocaj, 6-3, 6-1, to move into the quarterfinals and then collected two more wins to get a finals berth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt (knee) still hurts, but I am trying not to think about it. I felt sad when I failed to continue my game in the main draw. The girls in that group are very good players and I know I have a chance against them and I can at least make it to the semifinals,\u201d Lee said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lee also played in the doubles event with Tahiti\u2019s Naia Guitton, but the Pacific GSDF Touring Team members bowed to the fourth-ranked pair of Bishop and Kristina Lane, 4-6, 4-6.<\/p>\n

Lee\u2019s fellow CNMI player, Tania Tan, competed in the same event and partnered with New South Wales\u2019 Tharubphet Homkrun. Tan and Homkrun won the opening set, 3-6, but failed to take the win as NWS\u2019 Kayla Greco and South Australia\u2019s Casey Tay prevailed in the second, 6-3, and the super tiebreak third set, 10-5.<\/p>\n

In the boys division, the CNMI\u2019s Robbie Schorr and Tahiti\u2019s Jeremy Guines fell to Victoria\u2019s Daniel Paveska and Queensland\u2019s William Timoney, 4-6, 3-6, while Ken Song and Victoria\u2019s Jake Young bowed to NWS\u2019 Ashley Lauweriks and Marko Lukic, 3-6, 3-6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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