{"id":237949,"date":"2016-10-06T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=237949"},"modified":"2016-10-06T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:00:03","slug":"contrasting-victories-carol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/contrasting-victories-carol\/","title":{"rendered":"Contrasting victories for Carol"},"content":{"rendered":"
The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee, seen here rushing to the net during training at the OTF\/ITF facility in Fiji this year, is in the quarterfinals of the singles and doubles events of the ITF Waikato-Bays Under 18s Championships in New Zealand. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CNMI junior player Carol Lee played back-to-back games on the same court in the ITF Waikato-Bays Under 18s Championships and won both of them to make it to the quarterfinals of the singles and doubles competitions.<\/p>\n

Lee first saw action in the singles event on Court 12 at the Waikato Tennis Centre in East Hamilton, New Zealand yesterday morning and nearly shutdown Kiwi qualifier Cayla McInroy, 6-0, 6-1, in their third round match at the bottom half of the draw.<\/p>\n

The third-seeded Lee allowed the least points among the Round of 8 qualifiers in the singles field. The top-ranked Lisa Mays of Australia also swept her foe, but gave up seven points to Japanese and No. 13 Yuna Ohashi, 6-3, 6-4. No. 2 Ashleigh Harvey of New Zealand blanked Australia\u2019s Georgia Townsend in the first set, 6-0, but labored in the second before winning, 6-3.<\/p>\n

The other quarterfinalists in the singles event were New Zealand\u2019s Oleksandra Kalachova, Janvhi Clark, Cristy Robinson, and Brooke Kenny, and Australia\u2019s Ivana Popovic. Kalachova downed Danielle Moris, 6-2, 6-4; Clark slipped past Chiara Tommaso, 1-6, 6-0,6-4; Robinson defeated Victoria Hartland, 6-2, 6-3; and Kenny prevailed over Helena Spiris, 6-3, 6-4; The ninth-ranked Popovic stunned No. 6 seed Caitlin Ward, 6-1, 6-2, and will challenge Lee in the quarterfinal round.<\/p>\n

After securing a Round of 8 slots in the singles event, Lee rested for only a couple of hours and returned to Court 12 with partner Ayana Rengiil of Palau to play an extended game versus the pair of Japan\u2019s Asuka Kata and Australia\u2019s Gabriella Ioannou.<\/p>\n

While Lee eased her way to a victory in the first set of her singles match against McInroy, the former and Rengiil went neck-and-neck opposite Kata and Ioannou before escaping with a 7-6 (5) win. The two Pacific Oceania players then gassed out in the second set, allowing their foes to cruise to a 6-1 triumph and send the game in a super-tiebreaker third set.<\/p>\n

In the deciding set, Lee and Rengiil got their acts together and made a big comeback with a tough 10-8 triumph that moved them to the quarterfinals. In the Round of 8 game, which will be played today, Lee and Rengiil will square off against Japan\u2019s Sophie Hamada and New Zealand\u2019s Sophie Michl, who came off an upset over the No. 7 seed Kiwi duo of Kalachova and Ruby Spencer, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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