"Garuda Indonesia Tennis Masters” approached the semi-finals for men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles yesterday along with postponed matches of men's doubles round-robin. This prestigious event with a new record of total 500 million rupiahs in prize money took place at Tennis Complex of The Executive Club of the Sultan Hotel, Jakarta.
In men's singles, the semi-final match witnessed fifth seed Christopher Rungkat in relatively easy ousted top seed Elbert Sie 6-2, 6-3. Rungkat took his revenge after the final of “Alfamart Cup” when Sie won over Rungkat 2-6, 7-5, 7-5. In the other semi-final match, eighth seed Nesa Arta cruised past third seed Prima Simpatiaji 6-3, 7-6(4).
In the last four round of women's singles, third seeded Lavinia Tananta booted out sixth seeded Sandy Gumulya 6-4, 2-0 retired. In the opening set the battle filled with long rallies and groundstroke contest. Then Gumulya decided to retire due to weak physical condition. In the other semi-final, top seeded Damayanti played against fifth seeded Grace Sari Ysidora and the Balinese girl was pushed all the way by her 5 years younger opponent into three sets but Damayanti sealed 6-1, 2-6, 6-1.
The opening set was simply dominated by Damayanti as she used her forehand many times to penetrate her opponent. In the second set, Ysidora took in charge of the battle and kept on attacking from game to game. It paid off as she took the second set eventually. In the deciding set, the command was snatched back by Damayanti in applying her sound strategy. All in all, Damayanti's strengths are her forehand, ability to quickly read her opponent's tactic and smart in creating an open court. While Ysidora despite her defeat, she has good serve, consistent return serve and quite solid backhand.
In the final Tananta and Damayanti have the opportunity to earn 100 million rupiahs if one of them become undefeated. So far both Damayanti and Tananta are still undefeated.
Gumulya decided to take rest due to her weak physical condition and did not play the semi-final. Therefore, top seed pair Ayu/Liza Andriyani won walk over against third seed pair Angelique Widjaja/Sandy Gumulya. The other semi-final match was between second seed Jessy Rompies/Lavinia Tananta and fourth seed Grace Sari Ysidora/Septi Mende. For twice in a row, duo Ysidora/Mende won over second seed Rompies/Tananta 6-2, 6-3. In the first meeting of the two pairs at “Alfamart Cup” recently duet Ysidora/Mende edged past Rompies/Tananta 7-6(6), 6-3. Back then Rompies/Tananta still freshed from claiming the title at 10K in Manila. Today in the semi-final, Ysidora/Mende played very well especially Ysidora with her explosive backhands down the line.
In men's doubles, the semi-final was featuring seventh seed Andrian Raturandang/Christopher Rungkat when they ousted fourth seed Aditya Hari Sasongko/Andery Setyawanto 7-6(5), 6-1. The other semi-final showed close yet interesting match and eventually top seed Hendri Susilo Pramono/Nesa Arta defeated second seed Prima Simpatiaji/Sunu Wahyu Trijati 6-4, 6-7(1), 6-2
Photos of Damayanti & Tananta are courtesy of Indotennis.com
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