{"id":227693,"date":"2016-05-13T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=227693"},"modified":"2016-05-13T06:00:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T20:00:07","slug":"lee-settles-15-itf-juniors-ranking-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lee-settles-15-itf-juniors-ranking-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee settles for 15 ITF Juniors ranking points"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_227704\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227704\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/itfpix-1-300x224.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-227704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee goes for a backhand return to Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Ling Hsuan-Wei during their second round match in the 2016 Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s ITF Junior Championships last Wednesday at the Rick Ninete Tennis Centre in Hagatna, Guam. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee missed a semifinals appearance in the 2016 Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s ITF Junior Championships after bowing to the tournament\u2019s top-ranked player yesterday at the Rick Ninete Tennis Centre in Hagatna, Guam.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 seed Sara Tsukamoto of the U.S. blanked Lee in the opening set, 6-0, and then completed the sweep with a 6-3 victory in the second to deny the CNMI bet\u2019s bid for a semis slot at the upper half of the draw. <\/p>\n<p>With the defeat, Lee will have to settle for the 10 ranking points given to the loser in the quarterfinal round of the singles event. The Commonwealth\u2019s junior player earned singles ranking points in the Grade 5 tournament after beating Japan\u2019s Karen Kondo, 6-1, 6-1, and Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Ling Hsuan-Wei, 6-2, 6-3, early this week. Lee will also get 5 ranking points in the doubles, as she and teammate Ayana Rengiil of Palau won their opening match.<\/p>\n<p>Pending the awarding of her 15 ranking points from the Guam tournament, Lee, according to the ITF Juniors website, has collected 60 points in the singles and 25 in the doubles <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, with her win over Lee, Tsukamoto set a Final Four showdown against No.8-ranked and Japan\u2019s Himeno Sakatsume, who pulled off an upset over the third-seeded Ting-Chieh Wei of Chinese- Taipei, 7-6, (6), 4-6, 6-4, in the other quarterfinal game at the top half of the bracket.<\/p>\n<p>At the lower half, the second-ranked Yuelin Chen of Chinese-Taipei advanced to the semifinals after eliminating Mana Kawamura, 6-3, 6-3.  Chen will be facing in the Final Four another Japanese in Shuho Tsukuda, who ousted compatriot Kokomi Oyama, 7-5, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys division, Japan\u2019s Seita Watanabe and Kai Kawano were joined in the semifinals by Hong Kong\u2019s Jonathan Zhang and South Korea\u2019s Yohan Sung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee missed a semifinals appearance in the 2016 Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s ITF&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":227704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1814,80,51,170],"class_list":["post-227693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-carol-lee","tag-final-four","tag-guam","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227693","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=227693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}