Schorr, Song retain Top 5 rankings

The CNMI’s Robbie Schorr and Ken Song kept their spot in the Top 5 rankings of the Pacific Oceania U14 Circuit.

The CNMI’s Robbie Schorr returns to compatriot Ken Song during their third place game in the boys U14 singles event in the 2015 Pacific Oceania Junior Championships in Fiji last week. (Oceania Tennis Federation)

Schorr remained at second place behind Vanuatu’s Clement Mainguy, while Song finished third place in the leaderboard list released by Oceania Tennis Federation at the conclusion of the 2015 East Pacific Regional Championships in Fiji early this month.

Schorr was ranked No. 2 for getting 1,500 points in the 2015 North Pacific Regional Championships held in Guam last June. The 13-year-old Commonwealth player bagged the second most points as he topped the boys U14 singles event and finished third in the doubles with Song as his partner. Schorr swept all his six games in the singles match in the North regionals and had a 3-2 record in the doubles. In singles, he only dropped one out of the 13 sets he played for a 92.3 winning percentage and registered an 80-19 games won-loss record for 80.8 percent.

In the doubles, Schorr had a 60 winning percentage from matches won/loss, 63.6 percent from sets won/loss (7-4), and 58.8 percent from games won/loss (57-40). Overall, he tallied a 9-2 record (matches, 19-5 (sets), and 137-59 (games).

Schorr shared the No. 2 spot in the circuit with Tahiti’s Gillian Osmont, who won the East’s boys U14 singles and doubles crowns, but got lesser points in the doubles event as only two teams joined the competition. Mainguy also nailed the boys U14 singles and doubles titles in the West regional to collect 2,500 ranking points and lead 37 other players in the age group.

Song, on the other hand, was runner-up to Schorr in the boys U14 singles and adding his third place finish in the doubles, the former forced a deadlock for fourth place with Vanuatu’s Marlin Hannam and Tahiti’s Jeremy Guines as the three have similar 800 ranking points.

With Guines and other East players barging into the leaderboard, the CNMI’s Vincent Tudela dropped from ninth to a share of No. 12 spot with American Samoa’s John Quin Lim. Tudela got 400 points for placing second in the doubles and fourth in the singles.

Joining Tudela, Song, and Schorr on the ranking list are Haruya Eda and Steven Goodwin. Eda finished the season with 240 points (tied for No. 22 with Fiji’s Niko Matulic) after making it to the quarterfinals of the regionals, while Goodwin bagged 140 points (No. 28) for getting runner-up honors (with Tudela) in the doubles.