{"id":362765,"date":"2022-02-23T06:06:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=362765"},"modified":"2022-02-23T06:06:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:06:09","slug":"woo-wins-white-coconut-mens-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/woo-wins-white-coconut-mens-singles\/","title":{"rendered":"Woo wins White Coconut men\u2019s singles"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_362767\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362767\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NMITA2playerpix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-362767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimin Woo, left, in action against Colin Ramsey, right, in the men\u2019s singles finals of the 2021 White Coconut Tennis Classic last Monday at the American Memorial Park. (MARK RABAGO)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jimin Woo continues to dominate the local men\u2019s tennis field after winning the 2021 White Coconut Tennis Classic last Monday at the American Memorial Park.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old senior at Saipan International School and No. 1 seed bested Colin Ramsey in the men\u2019s singles finals, 6-2, 6-2, to fulfill the prediction he made earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very happy about the win. Colin\u2019s serve was very good but I felt my return has improved a lot,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Woo punched a ticket to the finals after blanking Andy Kim, 6-0, 6-0, while No. 2 Ramsey defeated No. 4 Sam Ryu, 7-6 (3), 6-2, to advance.<\/p>\n<p>In the mixed doubles, Woo took his second championship of the tourney after teaming up with Ryan Choi and defeating top seeds David Kwon and Yutaka Kadokura in the championship round, 4-6, 6-3, 10-8.\t<\/p>\n<p>Woo and Choi, the second seeds, advanced to the finals after beating Jun Wang and Henry Yeom, 6-3, 6-1. Kwon and Kadokura barged into the championship round following a hard-earned 6-3, 5-7, 12-10 win over Nason Wessel and Serin Chung.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s singles, top seed Hye Jin Elliot won the title after going undefeated in the round-robin format at 3-0. She capped her stint in the White Coconut Tennis Classic by beating No. 2 seed and fellow SIS student Serin Chung, 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_362768\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-362768\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/NMITA-pix-2W.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-362768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hye Jin Elliot in action against Serin Ching in the women\u2019s singles finals of the 2021 White Coconut Tennis Classic last Monday at the American Memorial Park. (MARK RABAGO)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the women\u2019s 40, Marivic Dunlop ruled the roost with a 3-0 record in a similar round-robin format. Dunlop got win No. 3 after defeating Yuko Kumada, 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>No. 1 Irin Chung took the girls 14 tiara by outlasting No. 2 Hoo Wang following a marathon match, 6-2, 4-6, 10-2.<\/p>\n<p>Chung earlier blanked Hannah Chae, 6-0, 6-0, to book a seat in the finals, while Wang had to carve out a 7-6 (1), 6-1 win over Anna Kwon.<\/p>\n<p>In another round-robin showdown, Stella Choi won the girls 10 after finishing with a 3-0 record. She secured the championship after triumphing over Emma Kang, 6-2. Kang eventually finished runner-up with a 2-1 record, followed by Vivian Chung (1-2) and Jenna Pascual (0-3).<\/p>\n<p>Results of the boys 16, boys 14, boys 12, and boys 10 will be reported in tomorrow\u2019s issue of Saipan Tribune. <\/p>\n<p>The 2021 White Coconut Tennis Classic is organized by the Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimin Woo continues to dominate the local men\u2019s tennis field after winning the 2021 White&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":362769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362765","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\/362765","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=362765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}