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Carol moves up in jr. world rankings, anew
Carol Lee is currently ranked No. 163 in the world and is preparing for two more Juniors ITF Circuit tournaments. (Contributed Photo)
Carol Lee continues to rise in the Juniors ITF world rankings, moving a few notches up to the ladder in the final week of August.
From No. 166 after making it to the finals of the singles event in the Oceania Closed Junior Championships 2018 in Fiji, the CNMI junior player is now ranked at No. 163—her highest so far since joining the Juniors ITF Circuit in 2015. In her four years of competing in world ranking tournaments, Lee has a 89-35 record in singles and 53-35 in doubles.
This season, he has posted 26-6 and 12-7 marks in the singles and doubles, respectively, highlighting the 2018 with three straight singles titles and four consecutive finals appearances. She won in the Northern Marianas Juniors Championships on Saipan in May and the South Pacific Open Junior Championships and Oceania Open Junior Championships, which were both held in Fiji in June and July.
Right now, Lee is back to Fiji from Australia where she competed in the Australian Winter International in Sydney. She is training at the International Tennis Federation/Oceania Tennis Federation facility and getting ready for two more world ranking tournaments in South Korea.
The CNMI bet will first play in the 2018 Lee Duk Hee Cup Chuncheon International Junior Tennis Championships that will run from Oct. 30 to Nov. 4 at the Chuncheon Songam Sports Town Tennis Courts in Gangwon Province. It is a Grade 2 event, which awards as much as 160 ranking points in the singles competition and 120 in the doubles.
From Chuncheon, Lee will head to Jeju to participate in the 2018 Seogwipo Asia/Oceania Closed Junior Championships. The competition at the Seogwipo Tennis Court from No. 5 to 11 is a much-higher ranked event—B1. The singles champion in this tournament will get 280 points, while the doubles winners will take home 210. A B1 event is the third-highest ranked competition under the Juniors ITF Circuit behind the Grand Slam/Youth Olympics and Grade A.
It will be Lee’s second appearance in the 2018 Seogwipo Asia/Oceania Closed. Last year, she made it the Round of 16 of the 64-player field in the singles events after winning her first two matches. She defeated South Korea’s Ji Youn Lee, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, and also prevailed against China’s Jiaqi Wang, 6-2, 6-3, before losing to South Korea’s Cherry Kim, 4-6, 5-7. In the doubles, Lee partnered with Wong and they bowed to Kim and Heejin Han in the first round, 3-6, 5-7.
