The only Indonesian left in the quarter-final, tenth seed Grace Sari Ysidora forced to end her attempt to make back to back semi-final at "13th Sarawak Chief Minister's Cup - ITF World Junior Tennis Championships 2009" in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia today. Ysidora's new nemesis was indeed China's Great Wall from Shenzhen, unseeded Zheng Sai Sai. Zheng pulled off another upset with 7-6(1), 2-6, 7-5 victory over Ysidora. Zheng continued on to stretch her winning streak as she has won 16 matches in a row till today.
A tomboy with glasses, Zheng kept on her persistency in the first set despite Ysidora's ability to control of the game. Number two Indonesian managed to lead 6-5 but failed to close it out as her opponent stayed on pressuring her and forced into tie break. Out of the blue, Ysidora experienced mental breakdown during tie break and gave the opening set to Shenzen resident 6-7(1). In the second set Ysidora regrouped herself and she was practically taking charge of the game then she took comfortable 6-2 come back. In the final set, Ysidora quickly cruised on to lead 3-0 but from then on she made a big mistake as she began to change her typical game pattern. She had to pay the price despite 4-1 lead and and then Zheng asked for a trainer to check on her foot. From such moment the Batak girl turned out to be an error machine as she kept on making errors and errors till she was barely able to lead 5-4. Ysidora had "Jakarta deja vu" as she became quite tense and finally Zheng took advantage of such situation and sealed 7-5 victory. It was very long match again along with several protests from Zheng to the umpire on his calls.
Zheng's impressive run is still on track and now she can be proud of her best outcome in reaching semi-final of an ITF Grade 1 tourney. In the last four round, Zheng will challenge top seed Hungarian Timea Babos who edged past fifth seed Hannah James from Great Britain 6-4, 6-3 in another last eight round match. Meanwhile winner of ITF Grade 1 in Thailand last week and fourth seed Maryna Zanevska of Ukraine also continued her solid form as she survived the scare of sixth seed Sachie Ishizu of Japan with 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Another winner in the quarter-final today was talented 14th seed Tamara Curovic of Serbia after she won easily over unseeded Yang Zi of China 6-1, 6-2.
As for second seed pair Beatrice Gumulya and Ysidora, their rare doubles partnership discontinued as of today in the semi-final. Gumulya/Ysidora bowed out to third seed duo James/Zanevska (Great Britain/Ukraine) 3-6, 3-6. Both Gumulya and Ysidora along with most of the players here will travel to Manila in the Philippines for another ITF Grade 1 tourney.
Photos of Zheng Sai Sai and Grace Sari Ysidora by Adji Soedibjo
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