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Carol Lee swept her first to matches in the South Pacific Open Junior Championships 2019 to boost her bid for back-to-back championships in the singles event of the J4 tournament in Fiji.<\/p>\n
The CNMI player, who topped the 2018 edition of the competition after beating Japan\u2019s Ikumi Yamazaki in the finals, 6-2, 6-1, routed Australia\u2019s Subi Surenraj last Tuesday, 6-0, 6-0, and then made it two in a row when she swept New Zealand\u2019s Kaithlynn Hart yesterday, 6-1, 6-0.<\/p>\n
The pair of victories put the No. 1 seed Lee in the quarterfinals where she will face Japan\u2019s Manami Ukita. The No. 6 seed Japanese advanced to the Round of 8 after eliminating Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Ya Chi Hsu, 7-6 (5), 6-2, and Australia\u2019s Chiara Di Tommaso, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n
The six other qualifiers in the quarterfinals are also seeded players: No. 2 Lara Walker and No. 3 Roopa Bains of Australia; No. 10 Callissa Dellabarca and No. 8 Jennifer Kida of the U.S.; No. 4 Kokomi Koyama of Japan; and No. 11 Eleanor Schuster of Samoa.<\/p>\n
Schuster and Walker will battle in the quarterfinals of the lower half of the draw, while Kida and Koyama will duel in the other Round of 8 match in the group. At the upper half of the draw, it will be Bains against Dellabarca with the winner facing either Lee or Ukita.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, the CNMI player had met Ukita in the same tournament last year. Lee paired with Di Tommaso and they lost to Ukita and Yamazaki in the doubles semifinals of the South Pacific Open.<\/p>\n
The 17-year-old is also playing in the doubles event this year and has a different partner in Hong Kong\u2019s Wing Ka Lin. The No. 1 seed pair eased past Vanuatu\u2019s Rosalie Molbaleh and the Solomon Islands\u2019 Zorika Morgan, 6-0, 6-0, to make it to the quarterfinal round. Molbaleh and Morgan set a second round match over Lee and Lin after sweeping Japan\u2019s Ery Fuiji and Yuna Miyauchi, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Lee and Lin will play in the quarterfinals today against No. 7 seed and Chinese Taipei\u2019s Ya Chi Hsu and En-Chi Wang, who ousted the Australian tandem of Piper Freeman and Surenraj, 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the CNMI\u2019s Robbie Schorr and Jimin Woo advanced to the second round of the boys singles event.<\/p>\n
Woo rallied slipped past New Zealand\u2019s Grayson Schwalger in the opener, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2, before losing to No. 8 seed and Australia\u2019s Amor Jasika, 2-6, 0-6, in the second round. The No. 11 seed Schorr, on the other hand, drew a bye and automatically marched into Round 2, but was beaten by Chinese-Taipei\u2019s Chuan Yu Chiu, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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