{"id":246335,"date":"2017-02-13T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246335"},"modified":"2017-02-13T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T20:00:03","slug":"seeded-players-soldier-coconut-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/seeded-players-soldier-coconut-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeded players soldier on in Coconut Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_246356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246356\" style=\"width: 257px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NMITA-pix-257x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seung Won Lee makes a baseline return to Jun Wang during their boys U12 singles game in the 2017 White Coconut Tennis Classic last Saturday at the Pacific Islands Club courts. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Top-ranked Sean Lee stayed on course for his second straight boys U14 singles division title after marching into the finals of the 2017 White Coconut Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who pulled off an upset over Ji Min Woo, 6-4, 6-2, in the finals of the 8th Annual TanHoldings Tennis Classic last year, moved a win away from clinching his second championship in the same age group following a 6-0, 6-1 semis win over Andy Kim yesterday at the Pacific Islands Club courts. Kim made it to the semis after eliminating Rintaro MIyawaki at the upper half of the draw, 6-0, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>At the lower half of the draw, Eugene Park notched twin wins over the weekend to set up a finals duel against Lee. Park first ousted Hyunmin Cho last Saturday, 6-0, 6-1, and then stunned No. 2 seed Sam Ryu in the semis yesterday, 6-2, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the boys U12 singles, which drew the most participants (16), all four seeded players are in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>No. 4 Seung Won Lee earned a Round of 8 slot after sweeping Jun Wang last Saturday, 6-1, 6-2, while Anthony Gregoire got a free ride to the next round following his walkover triumph over Min Gi Jung. The Top 2 seeds in the draw\u2014Daniel Kang and Richard Steele\u2014drew byes in the opening week of the tournament and automatically moved into the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Jaeyung Jung, Andrew Chung, David Kwon, and Jiwoong Kwon completed the Round of 8 cast. Jiwoong won over Danny Jeong, 6-1, 6-0; Chung escaped with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 victory over Danny Lee; Jung also pulled off a super-tiebreaker win over Eubin Park, 5-7, 7-5, 11-9; and Seung Won outclassed Jun Wang, 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U16 singles, the eight-player field is down to 4 as the completion of Week 1 matches.  Top-ranked Ken Song shut down Allan Lee, 6-0, 6-0, to set a semis duel against Steven Goodwin, who ousted Ken Xue, 6-0, 6-1. In the other Final Four pairing, it will be the No. 2 seed Vincent Tudela against Tony Kim following their 6-0, 6-0 and 6-1, 6-0 victories over Andy Cho and Jeffrey Seo, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s open singles, only four players are also left standing. No. 2 seed Jeff Race is among them after eking out a 5-7, 7-5, 13-11 win over Song last weekend. Moris Villanueva is also in the semis following his 6-3, 6-3 victory against Colin Ramsey. Tony Kim and Bobby Cruz rounded out the Final Four cast as the former got a free win against Dong Min Lee (walkover) and the latter drew a bye in the opening week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top-ranked Sean Lee stayed on course for his second straight boys U14 singles division title&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":246356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[703,80,14412,1387],"class_list":["post-246335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-coconut-classic","tag-final-four","tag-jun-wang","tag-tony-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246335","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=246335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}