{"id":392647,"date":"2023-05-29T06:04:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392647"},"modified":"2023-05-29T06:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T20:04:24","slug":"race-2-junior-netters-in-guam-during-mawar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/race-2-junior-netters-in-guam-during-mawar\/","title":{"rendered":"Race, 2 junior netters in Guam during Mawar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, CNMI national coach Jeff Race and junior netters Simon Tang and La Hunn Lam work out at the gym during Typhoon Mawar\u2019s approach to Guam. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CNMI national coach Jeff Race and junior netters Simon Tang and La Hunn Lam were essentially on ground zero in Guam when Typhoon Mawar came closest to landfall Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Race, a multiple Northern Marianas Sports Association Coach of the Year awardee and part of the CNMI Sports Hall of Fame, was in the U.S. territory to coach CNMI and Tahiti junior players in a couple of junior tournaments.
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From left, La Hunn Lam, CNMI national coach Jeff Race, and Simon Tang are currently in Guam taking part in the second week of the U18 Guam World Tennis Tour.(CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Oceania Tennis Federation asked me to come over here for the two ITF Junior tournaments to coach some kids from Tahiti and whoever wanted to come from the CNMI. I\u2019m here until June 4. Just having a little bit of a hiccup at the moment,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune before Mawar\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n

Due to the Category 4 typhoon, the first week of the U18 Guam World Tennis Tour was canceled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Race said he, Tang, Lam, and Lam\u2019s mother Joo Lee were staying at Wyndham Garden Hotel and the U18 Guam World Tennis Tour is being played at the Guam National Tennis Center courts.<\/p>\n

\u201cQualifying for the second tournament starts today. LaHunn and Simon both had a bye in the first round and then will play each other around 1pm today (Sunday),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Race also updated Saipan Tribune how the group has fared after four days after the typhoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now we can\u2019t get gas and I\u2019m getting low [in gas]. Still no water at the hotel but they got the generator fixed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to Mawar\u2019s closest approach Race said Guam was beginning to feel the brunt of Mawar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re fine but winds are still about 70. No power at the hotel for 14 hours as the generator got wet yesterday. I\u2019m running low on battery so I\u2019m going to conserve. No way to charge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even then Race had optimism that the tournament would somehow get going.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSimon Tang and La Hunn are getting their first taste of ITF events. Hopefully we can resume after the storm depending on the outcome\u2026 Next week Hye Jin Elliott, Serin Chung, June Yu, and David Kwon are supposed to join us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Race assured members of the tennis chat group before Mawar made its closest approach to Guam that Team CNMI would be fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a big one but we\u2019re all in a solid building at the \u201chotel with only one window which they have storm shutters on. [We have a] backup generator so we should have power and communications. We should be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott, Chung, Yu, and Quan, however, will no longer join the tournament on account of lack of flights.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo flights are coming to Guam until May 30 so they aren\u2019t coming,\u201d said Race.<\/p>\n

Tang, for his part, said that Mawar\u2019s winds seemed somewhat to be picking up hours before it made its closest approach to Guam.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are holding up great. It feels somewhat calm for some reason, but we are expecting a lot more later on at 1pm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lam\u2019s mother Joo Lee said Mawar was a frightening storm but that they felt safe inside the concrete hotel.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeeling pretty safe here but scary\u2026We have no power and no water in the hotel\u2026The generator got broken during the typhoon\u2026we have no battery so we came to the other hotel to charge our phones\u2026It was a horrible typhoon,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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