{"id":345463,"date":"2021-06-04T06:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=345463"},"modified":"2021-06-04T06:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:02:27","slug":"sikkel-sweeps-bridge-capital-tennis-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/sikkel-sweeps-bridge-capital-tennis-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikkel sweeps Bridge Capital tennis tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_345464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-345464\" style=\"width: 1800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/NMITA-pix-Sikkel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1795\" class=\"size-full wp-image-345464\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-345464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sikkel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Savita Sikkel excelled in the girls U14 singles category of the 2021 Bridge Capital Tennis Classic tournament after sweeping all her matches in the round-robin tournament last weekend at the American Memorial Park tennis courts. <\/p>\n<p>Sikkel completed the three-day tourney with a win-loss record of 4-0 to put her in first place, crushing all the competitors she was pitted against. <\/p>\n<p>In her first match of the tournament, she took a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Anna Kwon and moved on to face Hoo Wang. During the match, Sikkel struggled a little in the first set but managed to prevail with a 7-5 victory before ultimately overpowering Wang in the second set, 6-1. <\/p>\n<p>Next, the champ faced Anne Lee and like those before her, Sikkel showed no mercy, taking a 6-0, 6-1 victory over her foe. <\/p>\n<p>In her last match of the tournament, Sikkel outplayed eventual runner-up Irin Chung, taking a 6-3, 6-3, victory to secure her title. <\/p>\n<p>Chung completed the tournament with a win-loss record of 3-1 with her only loss to Sikkel. <\/p>\n<p>During her first match, she crushed Anne Lee, 6-1, 6-1, before moving on to beat Anna Kwon by a 6-4, 6-2 victory. After losing her match to Sikkel, Chung managed to conquer her final game of the tournament against Wang, 6-2, 7-5. <\/p>\n<p>Completing the age group\u2019s Top 3 was Wang who finished the tournament with a win-loss record of  2-2. <\/p>\n<p>Wang managed to prevail in the match against Anna Kwon, 6-2, 7-6 (6), and Anne Lee, 6-1,6-0. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the girls U12 singles, Anne Lee prevailed with a win-loss record of 2-0. She bested Hannah Chae and moved on to beat Lina Tsukagoshi, 6-3, 7-6 (3). <\/p>\n<p>Tsukagoshi took second place in the category after outplaying Hannah Chae but no results were available. <\/p>\n<p>Also winning a title last weekend for the boys U12 singles was Yutaka Kadokura who beat Siwoo Lee. <\/p>\n<p>The champ upset top seed Lee via a 6-2, 6-1 victory. <\/p>\n<p>He made it to the finals after sweeping his matches against  Ian Chae, 6-4, 6-3, and moved on to battle Henry Yeom in the semifinals where Kadokura took a 6-4, 6-1 victory. <\/p>\n<p>Runner-up Lee gained the finals seat in the top half after besting Taher Shakir in the semifinals, 6-0, 6-2. <\/p>\n<p>Completing the Top 3 was Ki Won Lee who vied for third place against Henry Yeom. Lee managed to take the title after a super-tiebreaker third set where he got away with a 10-6 victory. <\/p>\n<p>A third set was needed after Lee lost the second set, 4-6 but In the previous set, he managed to take a 6-4 victory over Yeom. <\/p>\n<p>The Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association helped coordinate the 2021 Bridge Capital Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savita Sikkel excelled in the girls U14 singles category of the 2021 Bridge Capital Tennis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":345465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2943],"class_list":["post-345463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bridge-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345463","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}