Damayanti shocks seventh seed at Quanzhou 25K

Indonesian numero uno Ayu Fani Damayanti posted a "surprise" victory over seventh seed Chiaki Okadaue of Japan 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of "China's Women's Challenger" with total prize money of US $ 25,000 in Quanzhou, China yesterday (August 12, 2009). A surprise it was simply because Okadaue a seeded player, but in terms of game, Damayanti was certainly a better player in most aspects of groundstrokes.

Playing only in her 10th tourney of the season, Damayanti extended her 16 winning streaks since Bangkok 10K last June. Out of her last 9 tourneys Damayanti has collected 5 titles from 10Ks in Hamilton, New Zealand; Bangkok and Pattaya then most recent Jakarta along with 25K at Balikpapan.

Currently at WTA 290, based on her career statistics, 22 years old and mediocre Okadaue, is now 10-16 this season and her best outcome came at Obihiro 25K, in the beautiful island of Hokkaido last July when she finished as quarterfinalist.

[1]Sophie Ferguson (AUS) d [Q]Nudnida Luangnam (THA) 76(5) 62
[Q] Chen Yan-Chong (CHN) d Sacha Jones (NZL) 26 61 63
Ayaka Maekawa (JPN) d [Q] Zhong Yi (CHN) 61 64
Ayu-Fani Damayanti(INA) d [7]Chiaki Okadaue (JPN) 62 62

[4] Zhang Shuai (CHN) d Xu Yi-Fan (CHN) 64 76(7)
[WC] Lu Jia-Jing (CHN) d Ayumi Oka (JPN) 63 61
Kim So-Jung (KOR) d [WC] Hao Jie (CHN) 61 60
[WC] Liu Shaozhuo (CHN) d [5]Suchanun Viratprasert (THA) 61 61

[8] Hwang I-Hsuan (TPE) d [WC] Liu Chang (CHN) 63 63
[Q] Qiu Si-Si (CHN) d [Q] Sun Sheng-Nan (CHN) 26 64 64
[Q] Ji Chun-Mei (CHN) d Chan Chin-Wei (TPE) 61 76(5)
Liang Chen (CHN) d [3] Han Xinyun (CHN) 63 64

[6] Zhou Yi-Miao (CHN) d Lee Ye-Ra (KOR) 62 46 75
[Q] Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) d [Q] Shao Shi-Tong (CHN) 63 62
Natsumi Hamamura (JPN) d Shiho Hisamatsu (JPN) 63 63
[2]Lu Jing-Jing (CHN) d Misaki Doi (JPN) 76(3) 63

Doubles Main Draw

First Round

[1]Chan Chin-Wei/Hwang I-Hsuan (TPE) def. Lu Jiajing/Lu Jiaxiang (CHN) 57 61 10-8
Ji/Liang (CHN) def. Hisamatsu/Yu (JPN/KOR) 61 62

[4]Han/Kao (CHN/TPE) def. Doi/Zhang (JPN/CHN) 67(1) 63 10-4
Chan Hao-Ching/Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) def. Hamamura/Oka (JPN) 75 64

Chen/Qiu (CHN) def. Ferguson/Zheng (AUS/CHN) 64 63
Sun Tiantian/Hao (CHN) def. [3] Xu/Zhou (CHN) w/o

Bai/Jones (AUS/NZL) def. Duan/Liu (CHN) 75 57 10-6
Kim/Maekawa (KOR/JPN) def. [2] Lu Jingjing/Sun Shengnan (CHN) 16 64 10-6

Quarter-finals

Ji/Liang (CHN) def. [1] Chan Chin-Wei/Hwang I-Hsuan (TPE) 64 26 10-7
[4]Han/Kao (CHN/TPE) def. Chan Hao-Ching/Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) 46 63 11-9

Sun Tiantian/Hao (CHN) def. Chen/Qiu (CHN) 63 61
Kim/Maekawa (KOR/JPN) def. Bai/Jones (AUS/NZL) 64 36 10-8

Photo of Okadaue is courtesy of sakura.ne.jp