{"id":342434,"date":"2021-04-19T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=342434"},"modified":"2021-04-19T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T20:00:57","slug":"top-seeds-prevail-in-day-1-of-junior-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/top-seeds-prevail-in-day-1-of-junior-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seeds prevail in Day 1 of junior championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_342435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342435\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Top-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No. 2 Wataru Kadokura serves against Simon Tang in the 2021 TSL CNMI Junior Tennis Tournament\u2019s boys 14 singles last Saturday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts. (Mark Rabago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Top seeds remained perfect in the first day of the 2021 TSL CNMI Junior Tennis Tournament last Saturday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys 18 singles, top seed Ji Min Woo didn\u2019t even break into a sweat in his 6-0, 6-0 win over Jun Wong. Third seed Sean Lee had a bit of trouble against David Min Soo Kwan before prevailing, 6-2, 6-5 (retired). No. 4 Seon Geon Heo also made quick work of Daniel Dong Yeon Kang, 6-1, 6-1, while second seed Sam Ryu retired Andy Kim, 6-1, 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls 18 singles, Serin Chung and Hye Jin Elliot blanked their respective opponents. The latter beat Sei Yul Hong, 6-0, 6-0, while the former beat Yebih Shin with the same score.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys 16 singles, Cody Shimizu and Min Seong Kim advanced to the next round after beating Sam Culp (6-2, 6-2) and Andrew Chung (6-0, 7-6 (5)), respectively. <\/p>\n<p>No. 2 Wataru Kadokura got the better of Simon Tang in the boys 14 singles, 6-3, 6-2, while Henry Choi blasted Vladimir Van Der Mas, 6-0, 6-1, in the same age group.<\/p>\n<p>Landon Pudney (6-2, 6-4 over Taher Shakir), Henry Yeom (6-4, 6-4 over Ryan Choi), Ian Chai (6-2, 6-2 over Jihun Park), and Emmon Tang (2-6, 6-3, 11-9 over Stephen Yeom) were all also Day 1 winners in the boys 12 singles.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys 10 singles, Nathan Su beat Michael Min Joon, 6-4, while Quido Lucas Jambor defeated Jin Ho Park, 6-1. <\/p>\n<p>In the girls 14 singles, Anna Jieun Kwon was a 6-1, 6-0 victor over Isa Nishitani, while Savita Sikkel zeroed Anna Lee, 6-0, 6-0. The lone girls 12 singles match had Jeong Bin Park advance with a 6-2, 6-0 triumph over Eun Park.<\/p>\n<p>The boys 12 doubles had Jihun Park and Pudney team up in vanquishing Jambor and Su, 6-4, 6-4, while Ryan Vhoi and Emmon Tang dropped the first set before beating the Yeom brothers in a tiebreak, 1-6, 6-4, 10-8.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 TSL CNMI Junior Tennis Tournament is being conducted with help from the Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top seeds remained perfect in the first day of the 2021 TSL CNMI Junior Tennis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":342436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342434","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\/342434","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=342434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}