{"id":257684,"date":"2017-08-07T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=257684"},"modified":"2017-08-07T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T20:04:22","slug":"carol-seeded-junior-itf-tourney-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/carol-seeded-junior-itf-tourney-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol seeded in Junior ITF tourney in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257688\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Junior-pix-234x300.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Lee is seeded No. 4 in the girls singles event of the 2017 Oceania Closed Junior Championships that will start today at the Regional Training Center in Lautoka, Fiji.<br \/>(Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee is among the three Pacific Oceania players who are seeded in the girls singles event of the 2017 Oceania Closed Junior Championships that will kick off today at the Regional Training Center in Lautoka, Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is seeded fourth in the tournament that is part of the ITF Juniors Circuit. Siblings Violet and Patricia Apisah of Papua New Guinea are the other seeded players (No. 1 and 5) from Pacific Oceania. Australia\u2019s Lisa Mays and Olivia Gadecki are seeded No. 2 and 3, respectively, while Amber Marshall, also of Australia, and New Zealand\u2019s Valentina Ivanov and Oleksandra Kalachova complete the Top 8 seeding.<\/p>\n<p>The seeded players will be paired against lower-ranked entries in the first round. The women\u2019s singles draw has yet to be posted on the event\u2019s website as deadline for registration was set yesterday at 6pm (Fiji time).<\/p>\n<p>The Oceania Closed is B2 tournament and the fourth highest in the ITF Juniors Circuit as far as the number of rankings points awarded is concerned. The highest is Grade A (Grand Slam events), which offers 250 points to the singles champions, and is followed by Grade 1 (150), and B1 (180). B3 gives 80 points to the singles winner, while Grades 2 to 5 events award 100, 60, 40, and 30, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow\u2019s competition will be Lee\u2019s second highest this season after she competed in the Grade 1 Mediterran\u00e9e Avenir in Morocco last May. In her return appearance to the Oceania Closed Junior Championships, the world ranked No. 240 Lee hopes for a better results after making an early exit in the Round of 16 of both the singles and doubles events last year.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Lee, the unseeded Isabel Heras and Robbie will represent the Commonwealth in the B2 tournament. Completing the roster of Pacific Oceania players entered in this high-level competition are Solomon Islands\u2019 Georjemah Row, Junior Benjamin, Graham Mani, and Vinda Teally, Fiji\u2019s Vienna Kumar and Ruby Coffin, American Samoa\u2019s Larry Magasin, Samoa\u2019s Eleanor Schuster, Tahiti\u2019s Naia Guitton and Jeremy Guines, Vanuatu\u2019s Clement Mainguy, and Guam\u2019s Mason Caldwell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s Carol Lee is among the three Pacific Oceania players who are seeded in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":257688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17846,195,164,2819],"class_list":["post-257684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amber-marshall","tag-australia","tag-fiji","tag-pacific-oceania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257684","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=257684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}