Last weekend there was a Hawaii state tennis tournament. HPTF June Junior Open tournament located on Oahu at Schofield tennis courts. There were Boys 10s-18s singles and girl’s 14s-18s singles. For boy's 14s number one seed, Jack Thibault and number two seed, Christian Duchnak. With a total of 7 players, Thibault defeated Ty Spangler 6-4, 6-2 in semi-finals. And determined Brandon chin defeated number two seed Duchnak in a tiebreaker 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 in semi-finals. In the finals was Thibault and Chin and Thibault had a hard time beating Chin with the score 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.
In girl’s 14 Singles there were a total of 9 players from all over the world. A girl named Leilani Duchnak, sister to Christian Duchnak are both from Pago Pago, AS! There were two seeds, top seed Lauren Doversola, and second seed, Lauren Liang. In the semi-finals Doversola played a tough match against Dani Young and advanced to the finals. The other semi-finals match was between second seed, Liang and Lauren Seki and their score was an amazing 3-6; 7-6(5); 6-4! So in finals it would be an incredible match between two Lauren’s. Lauren Doversola and Lauren Liang. Doversola easily defeated Liang 6-0, 6-1.
In the boy’s 16s singles division they played a round robin, so there were no first place and second place winners. In the round robin, Andrew Amor from Elk Grove, CA defeated both Christpher Sami from Pago Pago, AS. 6-1, 6-2 and Christian Duchnak 6-2, 6-2. Christian Duchnak defeated Christpher Sami 6-0, 6-2. So overall I think that if there were a winner it should be Andrew Amor.
The girls 16s singles division consisted of 8 players from all over the world. Two girls were from Pago Pago, AS and one girl named Katelyn Falk is from Virginia Beach, VA. Top seed was Liitia Godinet from Pago Pago, AS. And second seed was Oahu’s very own Tara Nilsson. In the semi finals top seed defeated Shannan Yamamoto 6-2, 6-3. Also in semi-finals, second seed defeated Andrea Baysa 6-2, 7-5. So in finals, both seeds had to face each other, in the end top seed Godinet defeated second seed 6-4, 6-4.
Boy’s 18s singles had a total of 6 players. Top seed was James Lee, from Oahu. In the semi-finals, Lee defeated Christpher Sami handily 6-1, 6-0. And Shane-Adam Young defeated Jesse Smotherman 6-0, 7-5. In the finals James defeated Shane, 6-2; 1-0Ret (injury). Shane had a wrist injury forcing him to retire and forfeit from his match early.
For the girls 18s singles there were only 3 players signed up, so they played a round robin. Sherise Lum defeated Tara Nilsson 6-3, 6-2. Litia Godinet also beat Tara Nilsson 6-1, 6-4. Then Sherise Lum defeated Litia Godinet 7-5, 6-4. So in the end I think if there were to be a winner it would’ve been Sherise Lum. Check out the results at this link HPTF Tournament
This tournament showed that many Hawaii players are stronger and can defeat other players from around the world. The point of this blog is to recognize how good many of the Hawaii junior players are. If you wanted to check out the Hawaii players check out this site hawaii usta junior ranking then in the National/Section/District, select Hawaii Pacific. Then choose the current year (2008) then you can select any junior division. And lastly you have to select in the "List type" select Standing list. You have to select standing list or else it won't work. If you want the 2008 Hawaii Junior rankings check out this link it my steps above ^^^ don't work. Rankings.
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