{"id":317373,"date":"2020-02-12T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=317373"},"modified":"2020-02-12T06:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T20:04:55","slug":"hwang-kwan-advance-to-semis-of-boys-u16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hwang-kwan-advance-to-semis-of-boys-u16\/","title":{"rendered":"Hwang, Kwan advance to semis of boys U16"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-317373 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hwang-kwan-advance-to-semis-of-boys-u16\/coconut-classic-pix-left\/'>Coconut-Classic-pix-(left)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-317375'>\n\t\t\t\tPudney\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hwang-kwan-advance-to-semis-of-boys-u16\/coconut-classix-pix-right\/'>Coconut-Classix-pix-(right)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-317376'>\n\t\t\t\tHwang\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Juncheol Hwang and David Kwon advanced to the semifinals of the boys U16 singles in the 2020 White-Coconut Classic last Sunday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p>Hwang defeated his mixed-up doubles partner, Sam Culp, in the opening round, 6-1, 6-0, while Kwon got the better of Min Seong Kim, 6-1, 6-1, in the lower half of the bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Top seed Andy Kim got a bye in the first round and awaits the result of the match between Isaac Heo and Jun Wang.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U14 singles, the semifinals is set with top seed June Yu taking on Cody Shimizu in the upper half of the bracket, while No. 2 Wataru Kadokura will face Dave Bachani in lower half of the bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Yu and Kadokura got byes in the first round, while Shimbu and Bachani took separate routes to advance to the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Shimizu breezed past Jaden Wang in the opening round, 6-0, 6-1, while Bachani had a tougher time against Danny Jeoung, 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Choi, Aiden Kim, and Takeru Jim advanced to the second round in the boys U12 singles. Choi defeated Sunny Kang, 6-3, 6-0, while Kim was a 6-4, 6-2 victor against Ocean Kang. Jim didn\u2019t even lift his racquet to beat Jace Choi after a walkover win.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U10 singles, No. 2 Landon Pudney scored the tourney\u2019s biggest upset so far when he beat top seed Ian Chae, 6-2, last Sunday. A day earlier, Pudney blanked Quido Jambor, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>Other results in the age group saw Jihun Park beat Eamon Tang, 6-3, and Tang return the favor against Jambor, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 White-Coconut Classic will resume this weekend with a three-day playdate, Feb. 15, 16, and 17 also at the AMP tennis courts in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association is organizing the 2020 White-Coconut Classic. For more information on the 2020 White-Coconut Classic, call tournament coordinator Jeff Race at 483-5652 or email raceaces@yahoo.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juncheol Hwang and David Kwon advanced to the semifinals of the boys U16 singles in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":317378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317373","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}