{"id":353666,"date":"2021-10-14T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=353666"},"modified":"2021-10-14T06:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T20:04:54","slug":"full-field-in-b-division-of-takecare-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/full-field-in-b-division-of-takecare-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Full field in B division of TakeCare tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353667\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NMBA-pix-Ella-Lucelle-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ella Serrano, left, and Lucelle Lampera have advanced to Group A finals of the women\u2019s doubles B division of the TakeCare Badminton Open 2021 last weekend at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With seven groups spread across women\u2019s singles, men\u2019s doubles, women\u2019s doubles, and mixed doubles, the B division is easily one of the most popular divisions of the TakeCare Badminton Open 2021 being played at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s singles, Malou Malasarte is safely into the finals after a 21-11, 21-19 victory over Angie Ito. Relegated to the loser\u2019s bracket, Ito will play Rowena Houk for a chance to challenge Malasarte for all the marbles.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s doubles, Lance Gallardo and Chris Hilario will face Allan Relativo and Hapi Gabriel in the Group A finals after they triumphed over separate foes. Gallardo and Hilario beat Alvin Alvarez and Eric Pe\u00f1a, 21-13, 21-10, while Relativo and Gabriel upended Alvarez and Pe\u00f1a, 21-20, 21-9, in the loser\u2019s bracket finals.<\/p>\n<p>In Group B, Hajin Oh and John Oh already advanced to the division championships with a tough 21-11, 9-21, 21-20 win over Perry Pei Li and Nap Balingit.<\/p>\n<p>Lucelle Lampera and Ella Serrano set up a Group A finals in the women\u2019s B division opposite the mother-and-daughter tandem of Loyda and Angie Ito. The former advanced following an 18-21, 21-12, 21-15 victory over the Itos. The Itos, meanwhile, rebounded from that loss with a 21-18, 21-19 straight sets victory over Elna Curate and Rowena Houck in the loser\u2019s bracket finals.<\/p>\n<p>Over in Group A, Windy Fernandez and Hannah Choi already booked a finals ticket in the division finals after conquering Malou Malasarte and Yoko Borja, 21-10, 21-13.<\/p>\n<p>Malasarte and Hajin Ho eased themselves to the finals of the mixed doubles Group A after dispatching Chris Hilario and Windy Fernandez, 21-13, 21-16. In Group B, Lance Gallardo and Hannah Choi are also waiting for their finals opponent following a 21-15, 21-17 victory over Thomas Lim and Ella Serrano.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 29 players are competing in the TakeCare Insurance Co., Inc.-sponsored tournament. Results of the C singles, doubles, and mixed doubles will be published in tomorrow\u2019s issue of Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With seven groups spread across women\u2019s singles, men\u2019s doubles, women\u2019s doubles, and mixed doubles, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":353668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353666","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\/353666","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=353666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}