Kamis, 13 Agustus 2009

Damayanti reaches quarterfinal at Quanzhou 25K


The current number one player of Indonesia, Ayu Fani Damayanti (WTA 312) extended her 17 winning streaks after she cruised past world ranked 332 and 25 years old Ayaka Maekawa from Japan 6-4, 6-1 in second round of "China's Women's Challenger" at Quanzhou Blossom-Garden Tennis Center in Quanzhou, Fujian, China on Thursday (August 13, 2009). In quarterfinal, Damayanti will challenge top seed Australian Sophie Ferguson who escaped strong fight from Chinese qualifier Chen Yan-Chong and won 6-4, 7-6(6).

Other seeds who still advanced into the last eight round were second seed Lu Jing-Jing of China and local fourth seed Zhang Shuai. Lu sealed a victory over Japanese Natsumi Hamamura 7-5, 6-3, while Zhang cruised past local wild card Lu Jia-Jing 6-0, 6-4. Lu will face qualifier Chan Yung-Jan of Chinese Taipei who ousted local sixth seed Zhou Yi-Miao 6-4, 7-6(6). Then Zhang will meet South Korean Kim So-Jung who had to work hard from a set down to beat local wild card Liu Shaozhuo 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.

Singles - 2nd round results

[1]Sophie Ferguson (AUS) d [Q] Chen Yan-Chong (CHN) 64 76(6)
Ayu-Fani Damayanti(INA) d Ayaka Maekawa (JPN) 64 61

[4] Zhang Shuai (CHN) d [WC] Lu Jia-Jing (CHN) 60 64
Kim So-Jung (KOR) d [WC] Liu Shaozhuo (CHN) 36 61 63

[Q] Qiu Si-Si (CHN) d [8] Hwang I-Hsuan (TPE) 61 64
[Q] Ji Chun-Mei (CHN) d Liang Chen (CHN) 62 62

[Q] Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) d [6] Zhou Yi-Miao (CHN) 64 76(6)
[2]Lu Jing-Jing (CHN) d Natsumi Hamamura (JPN) 75 63

Doubles - semi-final' results

[4]Han/Kao (CHN/TPE) def. Ji/Liang (CHN) 64 26 11-9

Sun Tiantian/Hao (CHN) def. Kim/Maekawa (KOR/JPN) 75 61

Photo of Chan Yung-Jan is courtesy of www.frenchopen4u.com

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