PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) -- Defending champion Eun Jeong Seong of South Korea won two matches Thursday at Ridgewood Country Club to advance to the U.S. Girls' Junior quarterfinals.
The 16-year-old Seong beat Taiwan's Yu Chiang Hou 2 and 1 in the morning, and topped Yu Sang Hou, also from Taiwan, 4 and 3 in the afternoon. Seong will face China's Xinying Wang, a 1-up winner over Hailee Cooper of Montgomery, Texas, in the round of 16.
In the other lower-bracket quarterfinal, Kendall Griffin of Sebring, Florida, will play South Korea's Yujeong Son. Griffin beat China's Jing Wen Lu 3 and 2, and Son edged Canada's Grace St.