Qualifying finals for boys' and girls' singles of "Indonesia International Junior Championships" were completed today (March 2, 2009) at Kemayoran Tennis Center, Jakarta. The local boys made perfect result or 100% outcome as all the three players cruised into the main draw of this ITF Grade 2 tourney. Eighth seed Jeremy Ryan Alexander managed to handle the opening set scare and eventually he dispatched top seed Kong Pop Lertchai of Thailand 7-6(6), 6-1. Second seed and Bandung resident, Michael Tjuatjadarma crushed fifth seed Andrew Bennet from Australia 6-1, 6-0. Sixth seed Gusti Jayakusuma edged past fourth seed New Zealander Ryoma Sloane 6-3, 6-4. The only unseeded player from Thailand, Nuttanon Kadchanapan defeated third seed Japanese Genki Hosoya 6-3, 6-2.
Meanwhile the four local girls left in the final qualifying all bowed out to Chinese girls. Top seed Zheng Sai Sai had an easy match and won over eighth seed Voni Darlina 6-0, 6-2. Darlina did not play with strong determination she used to demonstrate. She just simply played, instead of she played to win. Slim Darlina did not show her fighting spirit at all. Second seed Zhang Yuxuan also had relatively easy match when she defeated seventh seed Vannesa Gunawan also 6-0, 6-2. Sixth seed Zhu Ai Wen had to work hard before she secured her victory over fourth seed Rani Fitriya Wardhani 6-4, 6-4. Wardhani could have won the match against mediocre Zhu, but Rani wasted so many opportunities especially in critical points. If Wardhani could have taken the second set, the final result would have been different. Last but not least, fifth seed Dong Xiaorong survived the challenge of third seed Nadya Syarifah to earn 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 victory. Syarifah was simply dominant in the opening set and was leading 5-2 until Dong found her own game back to level-up at 5 all. Finally, Syarifah managed to close it out 7-5. In the two remaining sets, Syarifah tried her best to challenge her opponent but most of the time she became tentative and she let Dong to be in control of the battle.
Pictures of Zheng Sai Sai & Zhang Yuxuan by Adji Soedibjo
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