Two Indian girls forced into three sets but secured their quarter-final berth

Two Indian girls, fifth seed Kyra Shroff and unseeded Ashvarya Shrivastava had to go extra miles before they prevailed as winners in today's second round of "Indonesia International Junior Championships" at rusty Kemayoran Tennis Center, Jakarta. Shroff faced local hard hitter Cynthia "tomboy" Melita but eventually the Indian girl won the battle 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. Meanwhile, Shrivastava fought back to earn victory over tall Chan Hao-Ching of Chinese Taipei 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-3. Shrivastava recently posted her best performance in ITF Grade 2 tourney when she reached semi-final at Delhi last January.

Top seed Beatrice Gumulya faced slight difficulty in ousting Yang Zhaoxuan of China before she completed 6-4, 6-4 victory. Fourth seed Natchanok Saenyaukhot of Thailand had an easy task when she crushed local Bella Destriana 6-1, 6-0. New Zealander and sixth seed Katherine Westbury also advanced into the last eight round after she dispacthed Chinese qualifier Zhu Ai Wen 6-1, 6-1. Eight seed Juan Ting-Fei still managed to move into quarter-final as she defeated Yang Zi of China 6-3, 6-4. Other unseeded players also secured their places in the quarter-final. "Tomboy" yet "Chinese Great Wall" Zheng Sai Sai continued her run by disposing local wild card Aldila Sutjiadi 6-1, 6-2, then another local "tomboy" Laili Rahmawati Ulfa surprised herself to keep local fans' hope with top seed Gumulya after she barely outclassed tough duel with hard hitter Floridian Jade Frampton 7-5, 6-4.

In boys' singles, two first round delayed matches were concluded this morning. In the battle of qualifiers, Nuttanon Kadchapanan of Thailand edged past Bandung resident Michael Christian Tjuatjadarma 7-6(5), 7-5. Then local qualifier Gusti Jayakusuma cruised past his Thai opponent, Phaninthon Pakpoomkamol in three grueling sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Some notable second round results: top seed Hsieh Cheng-Peng denied the challenge of his Indian opponent, Sai Kartik Nakireddi 7-6(2), 6-0. Hsieh's compatriot and second seed Huang Liang-Chi of Chinese Taipei also defeated Indian Christopher Marquis quite easily 6-1, 6-2. Third seed German Dominik Schulz had an easy work by winning 6-1, 6-1 over Justin Chak-T To of Hong Kong. Fourth seed Maximilian Neuchrist of Austria also won easily over lucky loser Genki Hosoya of Japan 6-1, 6-0. Last but not least, the only local player left and eight seed David Agung Susanto improved his performance here at Jakarta Grade 2 after he outclassed Indian player, Naveen Saai 7-6(3), 6-3. With this victory, Susanto set his best record in reaching Grade 2 quarter-final for the very first time. His best performance in his career came when he finished as quarter-finalist at "Balikpapan International Junior Championships", an ITF Grade B1 tourney last November.

The remaining results of boys' singles - second round:

Zachary White CAN d (Q) Nuttanon Kadchapanan THA 6-0, 6-1
(7) Sudanwa Sitaram IND d Vaidik Munshaw IND 6-3, 7-5
Ahmed Al Bitar EGY d (Q) Gusti Jayakusuma INA 6-2, 6-3

Girls' doubles - 1st round results:

(1) Beatrice Gumulya/Kanyapat Narattana INA/THA d Chan Hao-Ching/Yang Zi 4-6, 7-5, 11-9
Hsieh Shu-Ying/Juan Ting-Fei TPE/TPE d Vannesa Gunawan/Nadya Syarifah INA/INA 6-1, 6-2
(4) Prang Pantusart/Kobkanok Upapong THA/THA d (WC) Voni Darlina/Kely Restiana Putri 6-4, 6-0
Zhang Yuxuan/Zheng Sai Sai CHN/CHN d Sharmada Balu/Kyra Shroff IND/IND 6-3, 6-1

Dong Xiaorong/Yang Zhaoxuan CHN/CHN d Prerna Bhambri/Ashvarya Shrivastava IND/IND 6-3, 7-5
(3) Laili Rahmawati Ulfa/Grace Sari Ysidora INA/INA d Natchanok Saenyaukhot/Zhu Ai Wen THA/CHN 7-6(3), 6-1
Jade Frampton/Nadia Frederika USA/INA d (WC) Dina Karina/Aldila Sutjiadi INA/INA 6-4, 6-1
(2) Denisa Allertova/Monika Tumova CZE/CZE d Bella Destriana/Cynthia Melita INA/INA 6-4, 6-2

Boys' doubles - 1st round results:

(1) Maximilian Neuchrist/Dominik Schulz AUT/GER d Kittipong Chienwichai/Nuttanon Kadchapanan THA/THA 6-1, 6-4
Justin Chak-T To/Chanon Varapongsittikul HKG/THA d Gusti Jayakusuma/Iben Zulkarnain INA/INA 7-5, 2-6, 10-8
(4) Samuel Barry/Zachary White (IRL/CAN) d (WC) Wisnu Adi Nugroho/Prisca Titan Setiawan INA/INA 6-0, 6-1
Sai Kartik Nakireddi/Naveen Saai IND/IND d Dino Dell'Orto/Christopher Marquis HKG/IND 6-3, 6-1
Michael Christian Tjuatjadarma/Indra Wijaya INA/INA d Ahmed Al Bitar/Shiva Sangwan EGY/IND 6-2, 6-4
(3) Huang Liang-Chi/Vaidik Munshaw TPE/IND d Adirek Khundarnpinitvon/Phaninthon Pakpoomkamol THA/THA 6-2, 6-1
Venkat Iyer/Sudanwa Sitaram IND/IND d Jeremy Ryan Alexander/Louis Theodor INA/INA 6-2, 6-0
(2) Hsieh Cheng-Peng/David Agung Susanto TPE/INA d Genki Hosoya/Ryoma Sloane JPN/NZL 6-1, 6-0