{"id":2887,"date":"2016-05-18T07:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2016-05-18T07:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T23:34:41","slug":"12-pacific-oceania-players-compete-in-the-chuck-e-cheese-itf-junior-event-in-guam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/12-pacific-oceania-players-compete-in-the-chuck-e-cheese-itf-junior-event-in-guam\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Pacific Oceania Players compete in the Chuck E. Cheese ITF Junior Event in Guam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jill Espiritu, a media volunteer for the Guam National Tennis Federation, writes that “Pacific Oceania Junior Fed Cup player, Carol Lee (NMI)-pictured below, excelled amongst the 12 Pacific Oceania players\u00a0who competed\u00a0 at the Chuck E. Cheese’s ITF Junior Event in Guam last week. She reached the quarter finals of both the Singles and Doubles Events. \"NMI<\/a><\/p>\n

Carol Lee and 11 other players representing\u00a04 other Pacific Oceania Nations \u2013 American Samoa, FSM, Guam, and Palau \u2013 were featured in the main draw of the annual tournament held at the Rick Ninete Tennis Centre in Hag\u00e5t\u00f1a, Guam.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0only participant from American Samoa was Larry Magalasin, who played in the Boy’s Singles event and partnered Terry Rush(FSM) in the Boys Doubles event. Guam\u2019s players in the Boy’s Singles and Doubles events were Mason Caldwell, Camden Camacho, James Hourican, Derek Okuhama, and Gabriel Tan. In the Girl’s Singles event, Anika Sachdev and Victoria Smith, both from Guam, also played. Carol Lee\u00a0and Nathania Tan (NMI) and Ayana Rengiil (PAL) also played in both the Girl’s Singles and Doubles.<\/p>\n

Of the 12 players from Pacific Oceania, Carol Lee and Ayana Rengiil (pictured below)\u00a0were the\u00a0only Pacific Oceania\u00a0seeded singles players; seeded 6 and 7 respectively in the Girl’s Singles Main Draw.<\/p>\n

\"PLW<\/a><\/p>\n

After beating\u00a0Wild Card\u00a0Karen Kondo (JPN) 6-1, 6-1 in the 1st Round, Lee then\u00a0defeated Ling Hsuan Wei (TPE), a Girl’s Doubles event finalist, 6-2, 6-3 in the 2nd round to set up a quarterfinal match with top seed Sara Tsukamoto (USA). Tsukamoto defeated Carol Lee 6-0, 6-3 reaching the final against\u00a0 Shiho Tsukuda (JPN). Tsukuda won the final decisively against Tsukamoto 6-1,6-1<\/p>\n

\"Girls<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier in the tournament, Tsukuda\u00a0 teamed up with partner\u00a0Sakura Hosogi to win the Girl’s Doubles Final 6-2, 6-2 against sisters Ling Hsuan Wei and Ting-Chieh Wei(TPE).<\/p>\n

Ayana Rengiil(PAL) won her 1st round match 6-1, 6-0 against Sophie Hamada (JPN) but then lost to Mana Kawamura (JPN)\u00a0in the second round 6-1,6-1. Lee and Rengiil, seeded No. 2 in the Girl’s Doubles event, won their first match in three sets \u2013 6-2, 1-6, 10-4\u00a0beating Nanami Okamoto\/ Saki Oyama (JPN), before\u00a0losing their Quarterfinal match against another Japanese pairing, Himeno Sakatsume and Tomoka Yoshida 6-1, 6-1.<\/p>\n

In other Girl’s\u00a0Singles matches, Nathania Tan\u00a0lost her first-round match to Kawamura 6-2,6-1 and in Girl’s Doubles, paired with Japan\u2019s Fuka Sano. Tan\/Sano lost to Kawamura\/Mahiro Koga 6-2, 6-0.Guam\u2019s girls had tougher outings in the first round of singles. No. 4 Hosogi defeated Smith 6-0, 6-0 and Koga defeated Sachdev 6-0, 6-0. In Girls Doubles, No. 1 Charmaine Shi Yi Seah\/Tsukamoto defeated Sachdev\/Smith 6-0, 6-0.<\/p>\n

The\u00a07 Pacific Oceania players in the Boy’s Singles event suffered early losses in the main draw, winning only a combined 18 games against their opponents. Taiyo Hirano(JPN)defeated Terry Rush (FSM)\u00a06-1, 6-4 and No. 2 Alester Magalit(HKG) defeated Terry Magalasin (ASA)\u00a06-3, 6-0. Japan\u2019s Soma Yokoyama defeated Okuhama 6-2, 6-2 and compatriots Syunya Maruyama and Yusuke Miyai defeated Mason Caldwell(GUM) 6-1, 6-3 and Camden Camacho (GUM)\u00a06-2, 6-0, respectively. Finalist and No. 8 Seita Watanabe(JPN) defeated Tan 6-0, 6-0 and No. 6 Zheng Qi Jonathan Zhang(HKG) defeated Derek Hourican (GUM)\u00a06-0, 6-0.<\/p>\n

No. 7 seed, Kai Kawano\u00a0won the Boy’s Singles\u00a0defeating doubles partner Seita Watanabe 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-1.\"Boys<\/a><\/p>\n

In the Boy’s Doubles event, Magalasin\/Rush defeated Caldwell\/Camacho 6-2, 6-3 before losing to No. 1-seeded Ryuki Matsuda\/Yohan Sung 6-3, 6-1. Okuhama partnered with Australia\u2019s Charles Dossetter as Wild Cards, but\u00a0lost their 1st round match to another pairing, Benjaminjacob Martin\/Zhang 6-3, 6-1.<\/p>\n

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Ryuya Ata\/Maruyama won the Boy’s Doubles title with a 6-1, 5-7, 10-5 win over Kawano\/Watanabe.”<\/p>\n

\"Champion<\/a><\/p>\n

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Jill Espiritu, a media volunteer for the Guam National Tennis Federation, writes that “Pacific Oceania Junior Fed Cup player, Carol Lee (NMI)-pictured below, excelled amongst the 12 Pacific Oceania players\u00a0who competed\u00a0 at the Chuck E. Cheese’s ITF Junior Event in …<\/p>\n

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