{"id":231083,"date":"2016-06-29T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=231083"},"modified":"2016-06-29T06:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T20:00:51","slug":"lee-sweeps-new-zealand-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lee-sweeps-new-zealand-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee sweeps New Zealand foe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee started her bid in the 2016 Oceania Open Junior Championships with a straight set win against her New Zealand opponent yesterday in Fiji.<\/p>\n

Lee blanked Holly Stewart in the opening set, 6-0, and completed the sweep with another easy win in the second, 6-2, to barge into the Round of 16 of the ITF Junior ranking tournament. With her victory, the fourth-seeded Lee set up a third round tiff against the No. 14-ranked Yuna Ukita of Japan.<\/p>\n

The Japanese gained a Round of 16 slot at the bottom half of the bracket after eliminating Hong Kong\u2019s Skylar Wan, 6-0, 7-5. Joining Lee and Ukita to the next round of the lower half of the draw were Japan\u2019s Hiroka Furuya, Yuna Ohashi, Misaki Kobayashi, Hong Kong\u2019s Claudia Ng, New Zealand\u2019s Janvhi Clark, and Australia\u2019s Madison Bishop.<\/p>\n

An all-Japanese third round tiff was arranged after Furuya and Ohashi prevailed against Singapore\u2019s Ashley Yim, 6-2, 6-1, and New Zealand\u2019s Ashleigh Harvey, 6-3, 6-4. Bishop and Clark also took only two sets to set up their Round of 16 collision as the former topped the Solomon Island\u2019s Georjemah Row, 6-1, 6-1, and the Kiwi bet triumphed over Tahiti\u2019s Naia Guitton, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n

Claudia Ng, on the other hand, needed three sets to knock off Australia\u2019s Sophia Fry, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) and arrange a meeting with Kobayashi, who eased past China\u2019s Jing Jing Yang, 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, at the top half of the bracket, the Round of 16 qualifiers were Japan\u2019s Akane Koizumi and Marie Shindo, Hong Kong\u2019s Wing Sze Yu and Justine Sophia Leong, the U.S.\u2019 Sara Tsukamoto, New Zealand\u2019s Stella Cliffe, Palau\u2019s Ayana Rengiil, and Australia\u2019s Kaitlin Staines.<\/p>\n

The top-ranked Staines won over Fiji\u2019s Kumar Fong, 6-3, 6-0, to set up a third round tiff against Leong, a 6-2, 6-1 winner over Japan\u2019s Koharu Nimi. Rengiil pulled off a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 triumph against Japan\u2019s Yoshika Furuya for a Round of 16 date against Cliffe, who defeated Japan\u2019s Kaede Tada, 6-3, 7-6 (3). Tada earlier ousted the CNMI\u2019s Tania Tan in the first round, 6-0, 6-3.<\/p>\n

Another Commonwealth bet\u2014Isabel Heras\u2014bowed to Luciana Kunkel, 6-3, 1-6, 3-6, but the latter was beaten by Yu, 6-3, 6-0. Yu is paired against Tsukamoto, who swept Japan\u2019s Shiho Shibata, 6-2, 6-2. The remaining Round of 16 pairing will have Koizumi battling Shindo.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the doubles competition, Lee is again paired with Rengiil and they drew a bye in the opening round. The second-ranked duo will have its first match today against Australia\u2019s Mia Savio and Yang.<\/p>\n

Heras will team up with the U.S\u2019 Bryn Johnson and they will challenge Japan\u2019s Sachiho Sho and Kaede Tada, while Tan is joining forces with Singapore\u2019s Julia Barden and they are pitted against another Japanese pair in Ohashi and Ukita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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