{"id":353736,"date":"2021-10-15T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=353736"},"modified":"2021-10-15T06:04:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:04:41","slug":"veloria-borja-tolentino-advance-to-two-finals-in-c-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/veloria-borja-tolentino-advance-to-two-finals-in-c-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Veloria, Borja, Tolentino advance to two finals in C division"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_353737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-353737\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/NMBA-pix-left-right-11.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-353737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sefric Veloria, left, and Yoko Borja have advanced to a couple of finals in the C division of the TakeCare Badminton Open 2021. (Contributed Photo\/Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sefric Veloria, Yoko Borja, and Merlie Tolentino are currently shining in the C division of the of the TakeCare Badminton Open 2021 after each advanced to multiple finals last weekend at the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p>Veloria is in the finals of the men\u2019s singles after beating Dez Antonio, 21-19, 21-10, in their semifinals matchup. He will face Paolo Quidato in the finals after the latter beat Antonio in a cliffhanger, 21-20, 21-20, in the loser\u2019s bracket finals.<\/p>\n<p>Pairing with singles opponent Antonio this time, Veloria is also onto the championship round of the men\u2019s doubles after they beat Leonard Manuel and Noel Watiwat, 21-15, 21-12. <\/p>\n<p>Borja advanced to the finals of the women\u2019s singles after getting the better of Lani Santos, 20-7, 21-10, in Group A. She also punched a finals ticket in the women\u2019s doubles after teaming up with Hiroko Tajima in beating Minhee Ho and Lala Augustino, 21-13, 21-12, in Group A.<\/p>\n<p>Borja\u2019s opponent in the women\u2019s singles finals is Merlie Tolentino after the Northern Marianas Badminton Association president defeated Gladys Dacumos, 21-15, 21-18, in Group B. Tolentino also advanced to the finals in the women\u2019s doubles A after she and Lani Santos outlasted Sophia Quintos and Gigi Zapanta, 21-19, 15-21, 21-17.<\/p>\n<p>In the mixed doubles, Antonio and Hiroko Tajima advanced to the Group A finals after beating Jerry Tan and Irish Pagarao, 21-10, 21-7. They now await the winner of the Tan\/Pagarao and Sefric Veloria and Jadel Ignacio clash in the loser\u2019s bracket finals.<\/p>\n<p>In Group B, Noel Watiwat and Tisha Ferrer advanced to the finals after beating Leonard Manuel and Marielle Lim, 21-10, 21-18. The latter will now duel Ian Lubao and Patricia Surima in the loser\u2019s bracket finals.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 29 players are competing in the TakeCare Insurance Co., Inc.-sponsored tournament. The finals and other matches of the men\u2019s and women\u2019s singles, men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles, and mixed doubles in the A, B, and C divisions will be held this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sefric Veloria, Yoko Borja, and Merlie Tolentino are currently shining in the C division of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":353738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353736","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\/353736","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=353736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}