Three Indonesians are seeded players at "Holcim ITF Women's Circuit", a tourney with total prize money of US $ 10,000 in Manila, Philippines this week. Placed as top seeded is 18 years old Sacha Jones from Auckland, New Zealand. Followed by Lu Jia-Jing from China is the second seeded, then Nguyen Thuy-Dung of Vietnam is the third seeded. Semarang, Central Java born Lavinia Tananta is placed as fourth seeded along with her compatriot Balinese Ayu Fani Damayanti as fifth seeded. The remaining seeds from sixth to eight are China's Li Ting and Qiu Si Si and last but not least, recent graduate of junior tour Jessy Rompies of Indonesia.
Today only eight main draw singles' matches were scheduled and the three Indonesians will play their opening match tomorrow to complete the total of eight more matches. Currently at WTA 701, Tananta is playing her 12th tourneys this season and has reached two finals at Tarakan and Bulungan 10Ks. Meanwhile, Damayanti is only playing her 5th tourneys so far this year and is playing her first overseas tournament of the year here in Manila. With lack of tour, Damayanti had to climb back to regain her plummeted world ranking and she is at WTA 733 now. Damayanti's highest rank was at WTA 358 on April 23, 2007. So, her choice was to follow an exclusive group of young girls in getting tour fund from the "always right boss".
Damayanti has recently joined the "elite camp" owned by rich woman and the President of Indonesia Tennis Association, Martina Widjaja, same as Gumulya sisters, Tananta and Rompies. The youngest of these players, Rompies ranked 811 now is only playing her 4th tourneys this season due to "big task" from her boss to kept on striving in junior circuit at all costs. Rompies barely made her target as top 10 in the world junior ranking as she finished at ITF 11.
In doubles, top seeded pair Rompies/Tananta had quick labor in the opening round when they crushed wild card pair of the Philippines, Patrimonio sisters comprised of Anna Christine and Anna Clarice. The Indonesian duo won easily 6-1, 6-1 over the Patrimonios. Damayanti is partnered with 14 years old Alisa Ogorodova from Uzbekistan and this new pair of Damayanti and Ogorodova is third seeded. This duet of Indonesia and Uzbekistan secured 6-0, 6-0 no mercy victory over local wild card pair, Marinel Rudas/Regina Santiago.
In singles, the first casualty of seeded players was the exit of third seeded, Vietnamese Nguyen Thuy-Dung. Nguyen lost to South Korean Kang Seo-Kyung 4-6, 0-6 in the first round. Malaysian hope hails from Penang, Jawairiah Noordin secured her berth into the second round after beating Karolina Kostro of Poland 6-1, 6-1. Two Chinese players, second seeded Lu Jia-Jing and seventh seeded Qiu Si Si also advanced into the next round. Junior player from Chinese Taipei and a qualifier, Juan Ting-Fei booked her second round ticket by defeating China's Lu Jia-Xiang in three sets. Two young Thai players, Sophia Mulsap and Nicha Lertpitaksinchai fell instantly in the first round. Mulsap lost to qualifier Lin Yu-Ting of Chinese Taipei, while Lertpitaksinchai bowed out to experienced Yoo Mi of South Korea.
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