{"id":230232,"date":"2016-06-17T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=230232"},"modified":"2016-06-17T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:00:50","slug":"lee-still-contention-itf-juniors-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lee-still-contention-itf-juniors-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee still in contention in ITF Juniors event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_230238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230238\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/itfpix-224x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Lee gestures after making it to the semis of the singles event in the Open Junior BNP PARIBAS de Nouvelle-Caledonie in Noumea, New Caledonia, yesterday. (Oceania Tennis Federation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee is still in the hunt for both the singles and doubles championships in the Open Junior BNP PARIBAS de Nouvelle-Caledonie in Noumea, New Caledonia.<\/p>\n<p>She is in the semifinals of the girls U18 singles and in the quarterfinals of the doubles contest with Palau\u2019s Ayana Rengiil.<\/p>\n<p>The 14-year-old Lee, who is playing in the ITF Juniors ranking event as part of the Pacific Oceania Touring Team, made it to the Final Four of the singles event after winning her first two matches at the lower half of the draw. She first swept Australia\u2019s Chiara Di Tommaso last Wednesday, 6-1, 6-1, and then had another straight set victory against the sixth-ranked Janvhi Clark, also of Australia, yesterday, 6-2, 6-0 to set up a Final Four showdown opposite Madison Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop, the No. 5 seed in the main draw and another Land Down Under bet, moved into the semis after eliminating Japan\u2019s Mayu Tezuka, 6-2, 6-2, and Rengiiil, 6-1, 7-6 (2), in the lower bracket matches.<\/p>\n<p>At the upper half of the main draw, it will be No. 1 seed Lisa Mays of Australia against her compatriot Sheila Cliffe. Mays barged into the semis after ousting Japan\u2019s Otoha Aoki, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, and Singapore\u2019s Ashley Yim, 7-5, 6-2, while Cliffe joined the former to the Final Four after knocking out the Solomon Islands\u2019 Georjemah Row, 6-2, 6-1, and fellow Australian Holly Stewart, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Final Four in the singles division will be played today.<\/p>\n<p>In the doubles, the second-ranked Lee and Rengiil drew a bye in the opening round and will be paired against Stewart and Ivy McLean in the quarterfinals, which will also start today.<\/p>\n<p>Joining Lee and Rengiil in the Round of 8 were the CNMI\u2019s Isabel Heras and Tania Tan, who defeated Australia\u2019s Luciana Kunkel and Mia Katharina Savio yesterday, 7-6 (4), 6-3. The two Commonwealth bets will next face the third-seeded Bishop and Clark at upper half of the bracket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee is still in the hunt for both the singles and doubles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":230238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12077,80,170,465],"class_list":["post-230232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-australian-holly-stewart","tag-final-four","tag-japan","tag-new-caledonia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230232","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=230232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}