Top seeded Nadia Frederika continued her winning streak and reached the final of "HEAD Singapore ITF Junior Championships" an ITF Grade 5 tourney at Kallang Tennis Centre, in the Lion city. In today's semi-final, Frederika ousted wild card and fourth seeded Este Potgieter from South Africa. In the opening set, Frederika played tough in critical moments and got through the fierce challenge by her opponent Potgieter. Frederika stayed focus in tie break then closed it out 7-6(3). In the second set, Frederika kept the ball in play combined with powerful groundstrokes. It was typical of this Jakarta resident to grunt every time she hit the ball. Finally, Frederika stopped her opponent's persistency in the second set and prevailed with 6-3 victory.
In the quarter-final, Frederika made a relatively easy win over Srilankan Amreetha Muttiah 6-3, 6-3. In the final, a perfect battle will be staged as Frederika will clash with second seeded Singaporean, Stefanie Li-Yun Tan. In the other semi-final match today, Tan had to give it all in a groundstroke contest with third seeded Jang Yi-Bei of Chinese Taipei. Playing at home, she took the advantage of it and rallied back to beat Jang 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.
Frederika is certainly happy with her outcome so far and it is indeed good for regaining her confidence after six losses in early rounds of the previous six tournaments. Her first ever playing was at Mexico Grade 5 in 2007 when she grabbed her maiden title in ITF junior circuit and Frederika's only title up to now.
Tan is a familiar face to Frederika as these two girls had doubles partnership here but crashed out in the first round. Two months older than her doubles partner Frederika, by appearing in the final, she has improved her 2007's performance here in this tourney. Last year Tan was a quarter-finalist. This season, Tan's best result was at Hong Kong Grade 4 when she came out as runner-up. Same as Tan, Frederika also recorded her top outcome this year as runner-up at Guatemala Grade 4. It will be interesting to witness both players in the final tomorrow. Frederika will attempt to bag her second title of her junior career, while Tan will try to take her first title on home soil.
In doubles, in the quarter-final Dina Karina/Kely Restiana Putri bowed out to third seeded pair Neesha Thirumalaichelvam/Feng Yidi (Malaysia/Hong Kong) 1-6, 2-6.
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