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 who competed 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. 
Carol Lee and 11 other players representing 4 other Pacific Oceania Nations – American Samoa, FSM, Guam, and Palau – were featured in the main draw of the annual tournament held at the Rick Ninete Tennis Centre in Hagåtña, Guam.
The only 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’s 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 and Nathania Tan (NMI) and Ayana Rengiil (PAL) also played in both the Girl’s Singles and Doubles.
Of the 12 players from Pacific Oceania, Carol Lee and Ayana Rengiil (pictured below) were the only Pacific Oceania seeded singles players; seeded 6 and 7 respectively in the Girl’s Singles Main Draw.
After beating Wild Card Karen Kondo (JPN) 6-1, 6-1 in the 1st Round, Lee then defeated 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 Shiho Tsukuda (JPN). Tsukuda won the final decisively against Tsukamoto 6-1,6-1
Earlier in the tournament, Tsukuda teamed up with partner Sakura Hosogi to win the Girl’s Doubles Final 6-2, 6-2 against sisters Ling Hsuan Wei and Ting-Chieh Wei(TPE).
Ayana Rengiil(PAL) won her 1st round match 6-1, 6-0 against Sophie Hamada (JPN) but then lost to Mana Kawamura (JPN) in 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 – 6-2, 1-6, 10-4 beating Nanami Okamoto/ Saki Oyama (JPN), before losing their Quarterfinal match against another Japanese pairing, Himeno Sakatsume and Tomoka Yoshida 6-1, 6-1.
In other Girl’s Singles matches, Nathania Tan lost her first-round match to Kawamura 6-2,6-1 and in Girl’s Doubles, paired with Japan’s Fuka Sano. Tan/Sano lost to Kawamura/Mahiro Koga 6-2, 6-0.Guam’s 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.
The 7 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) 6-1, 6-4 and No. 2 Alester Magalit(HKG) defeated Terry Magalasin (ASA) 6-3, 6-0. Japan’s 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) 6-2, 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) 6-0, 6-0.
No. 7 seed, Kai Kawano won the Boy’s Singles defeating doubles partner Seita Watanabe 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-1.
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’s Charles Dossetter as Wild Cards, but lost their 1st round match to another pairing, Benjaminjacob Martin/Zhang 6-3, 6-1.
Ryuya Ata/Maruyama won the Boy’s Doubles title with a 6-1, 5-7, 10-5 win over Kawano/Watanabe.”
