Fifth seeded Christopher Rungkat and third seeded Lavinia Tananta became the champion of "Garuda Indonesia Tennis Masters". Rungkat took men's singles title after an easy victory over eighth seeded Nesa Arta 6-2, 6-0. While in the earlier final of women's singles, Tananta rallied past top seeded Ayu Fani Damayanti 6-4, 7-5.
The year-end big bang of all five series as part of “Garuda Indonesia Tennis Series” provided total prize money of 500 million rupiahs. As both Rungkat and Tananta were undefeated since group's round-robin, therefore each of them pocketed 80 million rupiahs as the winner along with undefeated bonus of 20 million rupiahs. In addition, both champs got holiday package to Bali by Garuda Indonesia including hotel accomodation at Sanur Beach Hotel for 3 days.
Top seeded Damayanti was red hot favorite to win this event as most of the fans voiced their opinion. Personally I was in favor of Tananta as the eventual winner of this prestigious creme de la creme of national players' showdown. I was confident to see Tananta as the champion based on my observation along the week. Tananta showed her solid attacking strategy, good serve, strong mental toughness and physical fitness. While Ayu in terms of her game, her consistency already diminished abruptly in the semi-final as she scared by young yet talented Grace Sari Ysidora. In addition, the results during this year was in favor of Tananta as she was ahead 2-1 in her international head to head with Damayanti. Such recent victory by Tananta over Damayanti was at Manila 10K's final when Tananta defeated Damayanti 6-1, 6-4 last month.
It was indeed what happened to Damayanti in the final against Tananta, the Balinese girl did not perform at her best. She made good number of unforced errors and seemed lack of focus. In contrast Tananta played very well with her solid groundstroke, persistency as well as good fighting spirit. Tananta never won a title over the previous five series, while Damayanti grabbed three titles.
In men's singles, Rungkat was simply dominating the match against Arta. The Balinese player Arta only could level-up with Rungkat up to early 4 games in the opening set. Rungkat was able to win men's doubles title with his senior, Andrian Raturandang after gunned down top seed Hendri Susilo Pramono/Arta 6-4, 7-5. In women's doubles, top seed pair Damayanti/Liza Andriyani edged past fourth seed Septi Mende/Grace Sari Ysidora 6-1, 6-4.
All photos above by Adji Soedibjo
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