The youngest player in this event, fifth seed Grace Sari Ysidora made a breakthrough by defeating second seed Liza Andriyani 1-6, 6-2, 6-1. On the second day of prestigious “Garuda Indonesia Tennis Masters” drizzle still haunted Tennis Complex of the Executive Club of the Sultan Hotel, Jakarta and “Sportama” as the organizer had no choice but to postpone a couple of matches as happened in “Merak” group. The battle between Andriyani and Ysidora was halted due to sprinkle of rain when Ysidora was leading 5-1 in the final set. Also the match of third seed Lavinia Tananta against eighth seed Jessy Rompies was delayed for the same reason when Rompies was up 3-2 in the second set.
Ysidora’s serve immediately got broken by Andriyani and then she held her serve to lead 2-0. Tall Andriyani was simply taking charge of the whole opening set by hitting slices as way to block Ysidora’s attacking game. Few times 14 years younger girl than Andriyani shocked her opponent with a couple of backhand winners combined with consistent and solid return-serve. But overall in this first set Ysidora had trouble in deciding what choice of strokes to hit and then she made spray of unforced errors. Both players had 4 winners in the opening set, but since Ysidora turned to an error machine so Andriyani took it 6-1.
In the second set Ysidora gradually improved her game by finding her typical attacking game back and as result she could penetrate Andriyani with more backhand winners. Of course Andriyani kept on fighting to stay in the game but Ysidora was quite patient in targeting her shots towards vulnerable spots of her opponent and it paid-off as she took the second set 6-2. In the final set, Ysidora was quite cool and persistent with her attacking game as she mixed it with surprised drop shot and volley winners. She also stunned Andriyani with an explosive backhand passing-shot winner. Then Ysidora cruised along quickly all the way to 5-1 and suddenly sprinkle of rain came again so the match was stopped immediately.
Almost two hours of rain delay, then Andriyani and Ysidora resumed their match. In the position of serving for the match, Ysidora trailed 0-30 but then she bounced back in leading 40-30. After twice deuces, at last Ysidora prevailed as the winner of such long match and closed it out 6-1.
Another match in the same group, Tananta denied the challenge of Rompies and posted her victory 6-2, 7-5. Tananta was quite dominant in the first set in applying long rallies. When Rompies temporarily led 3-2, drizzle fell and the match was delayed. By the time both players returned to the court, Tananta leveled it 3-3 but then Rompies romped a couple of games to lead back 5-3. Tananta kept pressuring on her opponent with her solid groundstroke and she rallied to earn four games in a row and won the second set and match 7-5. Indeed, Rompies was choked badly.
In “Cenderawasih” group top seed Ayu Fani Damyanti also secured her place in the semi-final upon outclassed sixth seed but fragile Sandy Gumulya 7-5, 6-1. In the match Gumulya called in the trainer to treat part of her stomach then she continued to play again. Despite her loss, the current number one of Indonesia still has chance to advance into the semi-final, after all most likely she will not have difficulty in playing her old doubles' partner Septi Mende in the last round-robin match. In the other stint, Angelique “Angie” Widjaja created a possibility to be in the semi-final as she won over Septi Mende 6-3, 6-4. In the last match of the group, she will challenge Damayanti.
In men's singles, top seeded Elbert Sie clinch his berth into semi-final and will play his last round-robin match against third seeded Prima Simpatiaji to complete the order of first and second place in “Garuda” group. In his second tie yesterday, Sie crushed sixth seeded Sebastian Da Costa 6-2, 6-0. While Simpatiaji dispatched seventh seeded Surya Wijaya Budi 6-2, 6-1.
In “Rajawali” group fifth seed Christopher Rungkat shrewdly ousted second seed Sunu Wahyu Trijati 6-1, 6-0. The only quite interesting match was between eighth seed Nesa Arta and fourth seed Andrian Raturandang. In the opening set, Balinese Arta comfortably took it 6-1 through long rallies. In the second set, Raturandang played better in keeping-up Arta's pace but in the end the Balinese descent could overcome the slight scare and won 7-5. With all of the above results, Rungkat and Arta are safe to perform the final four. Due to lingering rain falls till evening, all men's doubles' matches were postponed to the next day.
Picture of Ysidora is courtesy of Dwi Ari Setiyadi/Kompas Images
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