After getting first round bye, second seed Romana Tedjakusuma/Story Tweedie-Yates lost the battle to young US pair Christina Mc Hale/Sloane Stephens 4-6, 3-6 in the quarter-final on Thursday (03/19/2009) at "2009 USTA Women's Pro Challenger of Redding" in Redding, California, USA. It was perfect early birthday present for Fort Lauderdale resident Stephens who would turn 16 years old today (03/20/2009). While her partner Mc Hale hails from Englewood Cliffs, in sunny California. In the semi-final, this young duo will face Anna Orlik/Masa Zec-Peskiric (Belarus/Slovenia). Unseeded pair Orlik/Zec-Peskiric toppled fourth seed duo Madison Brengle/Heidi El-Tabakh (USA/Canada) 6-1, 6-4.
In singles' second round, 18 years old Brengle made an upset of the day by disposing talented fifth seed Zec-Peskiric of Slovenia 6-3, 7-5. In the quarter-final, Brengle will challenge experienced Laura Granville of Chicago who won the battle of qualifiers after she outclassed Indian Shikha Uberoi 6-3, 6-3.
Credit should be given to wild card Stephens from Fort Lauderdale, Florida who forced Canadian third seed Stephanie Dubois into three sets. In the end Dubois managed to win 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 over the young Floridian. Meanwhile sixth seed Alberta Brianti of Italy proved as better player than China's Yuan Meng with 6-3, 6-3 victory. Dubois will have battle with Brianti in the last eight round.
The most respected Japanese player, seventh seed Kimiko Date-Krumm eased through her opening set but then she faced strong fight by her junior Aiko Nakamura in the second set and eventually secured 6-0, 6-4 victory. Date-Krumm will compete to earn spot in the semi-final with fourth seed Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland. Voegele won relatively easy second round match over Russian Alexandra Panova 6-2, 6-2. Last but not least, Japanese Rika Fujiwara did not have to sweat much as she crushed Greek Anna Gerasimou 6-0, 6-1 and she will face rising star qualifier Ajla Tomljanovic of Croatia in the last eight round.
Beautiful Tomljanovic survived such fierce challenge from wild card Asia Muhammed of USA and was able to win 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Last week at WTA Premier tourney in Indian Wells, California, this Croat talent was awarded wild card in the main draw but she bowed out to American Angela Haynes 5-7, 2-6 in the first round. It was a sweet revenge by Haynes as she was defeated by her younger opponent in three sets at Boca Raton, Florida 25K last January. By reaching quarter-final here only in her second participation of 25K tourney, it is indeed Tomljanovic's best achievement so far in her very young career of senior pro.
Picture of Tetiana Luzhanska & Romana Tedjakusuma is courtesy of isospeed.com
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