{"id":328993,"date":"2020-09-01T06:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=328993"},"modified":"2020-09-01T06:04:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T20:04:42","slug":"flashback-carol-gets-us-open-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/flashback-carol-gets-us-open-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Carol gets US Open slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_328982\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328982\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/carolpix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"441\" class=\"size-full wp-image-328982\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carol Lee, seen here competing in an off-island tournament last year, played in the 2019 US Open Junior. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On this day last year, Carol Lee made history for CNMI tennis, as she was able to secure a slot on the main draw of the US Open (Juniors) in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Lee became the first player from the Commonwealth to have seen action in the Grade A event under the Junior ITF World Circuit. The then 17-year-old Lee advanced to the 132-player draw after beating Hibah Shaikh of the U.S., 6-2, 6-3, in the second qualifying game. Earlier in her first qualifying match, the CNMI bet pulled off an upset over No. 16 seed Tara Malik of the U.S., 6-3, 6-4, to move one win away from notching one of the eight qualifying slots in the prestigious tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With her pair of victories, Lee reached the first round of the competition and was pitted against world No. 127 Robin Montgomery, who cruised to a 6-2 triumph in the first set before laboring his way through a 7-5 win in the second.<\/p>\n<p>The US Open was Lee\u2019s second Grade A event last year, as she also played in the Australian Open. She went to New York for the US Open less than two months after handing the CNMI a gold medal in the mixed doubles event (with Colin Sinclair) of the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Lee is in Atlanta and will be suiting up for four-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion Georgia Tech in the NCAA Division I. She is included on the Yellow Jackets\u2019 2020-2021 roster released last month and is among the four rookies on the squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day last year, Carol Lee made history for CNMI tennis, as she was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":328981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328993","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\/328993","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=328993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}