Lee, Lopez lead juniors doubles winners

 The diminutive pair of Carol Lee and Mikayla Lopez played big in the girls U15 doubles of the 3rd Annual Tan Holdings Tennis Classic as they nearly shutout their foes en route to winning the championship last Sunday at the American Memorial Park tennis courts.

In their Round 1 match last Saturday, Lee and Lopez allowed Negahr Rastguiy and Tammy Ackerman two points for an impressive 6-2, 6-0. Then in the championship-clinching game against Isabel Heras and Julia Ishikawa last Sunday, Lopez and Lee cruised to a 6-0, 6-1 win. Heras and Ishikawa settled for runner-up honors after prevailing over Ackerman and Rastguiy (via default) in the consolation match.

The girls U15 doubles crown was Lee and Lopez’s second championship in Week 2, as the former also reigned supreme in the girls U112 singles and the latter ruled the girls U15.

Other pairs who secured doubles crown in the second and final week of the Tan Holdings Classic were Thea Minor and Christian Miller, Vincent Tudela and Haruya Eda, Tania Tan and Ami Tsukagoshi, and Alex Park, and Clayton Izuka.

The top-seeded Minor and Miller won the U18 doubles championship against four other teams. The winning duo drew a bye in the first round and marched into the finals after a 6-1, 6-0 win in the semis over Justin Poon and Ji Hoon Choi. In the finals, Minor and Miller faced Seiya Eda and Chris Cajigan and notched another straight set win, 6-3, 6-2.

Cajigan and Eda advanced to the finals after beating Colin Ramsey and Morris Villanueva in the first round, 6-4, 6-1, and pulling off an upset over the second-ranked Daniel Park and Jake Lee, 7-5, 2-6, 10-5.

Tudela and Eda were unbeaten in two games in the boys U10 doubles to win the championship. They first dueled Logan Mister and Cole Chambers last Saturday and ended the game after only two sets, 6-1, 6-3. For their second match last Sunday, Tudela and Eda were paired against Mondo Taniguchi and Ken Song and needed three sets to eke out a victory, 6-4, 6-7, 10-6. Mister and Chamers clinched runner-up honors after downing Taniguchi and Song, 6-2, 7-5.

In the girls U12 doubles, Tan and Tsukagoshi sealed the championship after sweeping Katherine Atalig and Hanna Nelson last Sunday, 6-1, 6-2. Earlier in their first match, Tsukagoshi and Tan also coasted to a 6-1, 6-2 triumph over Malika Miyawaki and Grace Choi, who eventually took the runner-up awards after prevailing over Atalig and Nelson, 7-5, 6-3.

The boys U12 doubles plum went to Izuka and Park, who thwarted Michael Ren and Steven Goodwin in the finals, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. Izuka and Park were ranked second in their division and stunned the No. 1-seeded pair of Luther Lizama and Michael Jones, 6-4, 6-0, to make it to the finals against Ren and Goodwin, who defeated Eda and Tudela in the other semis pairing, 6-0, 6-1.