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South Korea\u2019s Yunseok Jang prevailed in the battle for the Top 2 seeds in the boys singles finals of the 2019 Northern Marianas Junior Championships after sweeping Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Nan Hsun Lin, 6-1, 6-2, yesterday at the Pacific Islands Club hard courts.<\/p>\n
The No. 1 Jang ruled the Grade 5 event under the ITF Juniors World Tour without dropping a single set, as he also had a straight set semis victory over No. 3 Matthew Garcia of the Philippines last Saturday, 6-2, 6-1. The South Korean\u2019s other wins at the top half of the draw were against Brazil\u2019s Nikolas Herbert, 6-0, 6-1; the CNMI\u2019s Sean Lee, 6-0, 6-0, and Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Hong-Lin Fu, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n
Lin also swept his way to the finale, as he topped Japan\u2019s Kenta Miyoshi, 6-1, 6-2, in the other semis game. The No. 2 seed earlier routed Japan\u2019s Yusen Sato in the second round, 6-1, 6-0; defeated South Korea\u2019s Sooyoung Yang in the third round, 6-2, 6-2; and downed Japan\u2019s Hiroki Fujita, 6-0, 6-3, to make it to the Final Four.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the girls singles crown also went to the No. 1 seed in the draw after Japanese Manami Ukita beat the unranked Hui-Geyong Kim in the finals last Saturday, 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Ukita made it to the title game after surviving an all-Japan semis duel against Natsumi Numano, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Before outclassing her compatriot, Ukita needed only two sets to eliminate China\u2019s Haoyan Wu, 7-5, 6-3, and South Korea\u2019s Gio Jang, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n
Kim also had one match going to the distance, as she edged Japan\u2019s Hiromiu Sekiguchi in the second round, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-4. Earlier in the opening round, the South Korean booted out Russia\u2019s Sofiya Lebedeva, 6-1, 7-5, while her other straight set victories were recorded against Japan and No. 3 Kanami Hayashige (quarterfinals), 6-2, 6-2, and No. 2 Zijun Jiang of China, 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n
In other results, Ukita earlier claimed the doubles crown with China\u2019s Qianyu Liu. The No. 1 seed pair took the division championship after sweeping the Japanese duo of Hayashige and Rio Osoegawa in the finals, 6-2, 6-1. The Japanese bets moved into the title game following a 6-1, 6-3 triumph over Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Lin and Jyun Yi Lee. Liu and Ukita also finished off Japan\u2019s Riko Kamikura and Sekiguchi in two sets, 6-4, 6-4, to notch the first finals ticket.<\/p>\n
In the boys doubles finals, No. 4 Fu and Shu-Lun Chang of Chinese Taipei pulled off an upset over No. 3 Jang and Gyun Seop Sim, 3-6, 6-3, 10-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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