British player Emily Webley-Smith is the top seed of singles main draw at “Bankaltim International Open 2009” which is underway today. 24 years old Webley-Smith had long overdue “breakthrough” in 2008 as she eventually earned her maiden title of 10K at Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Spain then as qualifier she cruised all they way to quarterfinals at Kolkata, India 50K. In her opening round of the second year tourney with total prize money of US $ 25,000, Webley-Smith will face Slovenian Petra Pajalic and if she gets through, it is likely she will play against Ayu Fani Damayanti of Indonesia. The Balinese player Damayanti has an easy first round as she will play wild card Dian Anggraini.
The second seed is Stefania Boffa from Switzerland who had played here before. Boffa will meet Chinese qualifier Yang Yi in the first round. Meanwhile third seed Zhang Ling of Hong Kong will play against wild card Beatrice Gumulya. Then fourth seed “veteran” Romana Tedjakusuma will face Japanese Erika Sema in the opening round.
Fifth seed Montinee “Ploy” Tangphong of Thailand is opening her campaign against China’s Hao Jie. Second time visitor to Indonesia, qualifier and sixth seed Tadeja Majeric from Slovenia will face Dianne Hollands of New Zealand. Then seventh seed “veteran” Seiko Okamoto of Japan will play against Thai qualifier Satjaporn Mahajaroenkul. And last but not least eighth seed Nudnida “June” Luangnam of Thailand will clash with her compatriot and qualifier Nungnadda “Jib” Wannasuk.
Other Indonesian players from Big Mama’s camp beside Damayanti and Gumulya are Lavinia Tananta and she is going to play against British Anna Fitzpatrick. Then Jessy Rompies is drawn to meet local qualifier Priscilla Anggrenny Oky Suconong from Surabaya.
Some independent local players such as Grace Sari Ysidora and Cynthia Melita are given wild card by Indonesia Tennis Association. Ysidora will have her opening campaign against qualifier yet her friend, Nicha Lertpitaksinchai of Thailand, while Melita will challenge Lu Jia-Jing of China.
In my opinion, the tourney schedule could have been better this year. Personally, I have voiced my concern to Indonesia Tennis Association at its head office. Back in 2007 it was nice circuit as it started with Jakarta 10K, then Tarakan 10K and finally Balikpapan 10K. Then last year, it began with Balikpapan 25K, Tarakan 10K and Bulungan 10K. This year, I should say it is such a strange schedule. It started with Balikpapan 25K, Tarakan 10K next week and the following week will be Tanjung Selor 25K. Actually, in the original tour schedule there was Manado 10K as the final stop but it was cancelled due to the local tennis association mismanagement. When I asked why this year schedule was odd, officials at Indonesia Tennis Association or known as Pelti said that each local tourney committee insisted to have the dates as they wanted. I argued with Pelti that it is Pelti’s job to provide sound advice to each local tennis association in terms of professional tour schedule. For example, in the original entry list Sandy Gumulya entered both 25Ks at Balikpapan and Tanjung Selor and it made sense since she would have wasted her time and energy to play Tarakan 10K in between. But as we recall, Gumulya had knee injury at Hamilton, New Zealand 10K last March and she had no choice but to withdraw. So, I suggested for next year to have Balikpapan 25K, Tanjung Selor 25K and Tarakan 10K or another idea to begin with Tarakan 10K, Tanjung Selor 25K and eventually Balikpapan 25K.
Another critic towards Pelti is about wild card main draw. In this issue Pelti must be firm despite each local tourney committee’s slot to have 2 wild cards from their own players, while the other two are Pelti’s consent. I strongly disagreed with Pelti as Dian Anggraini got wild card since she is a local player from East Kalimantan. Pelti should have done their job in intervening such wild card allocation. Anggraini is hardly playing on the tour even on national level. It is fine that younger Gumulya got wild card as she has been playing for East Kalimantan for a few years. But tennis fans know for sure, Gumulya is a resident of Jakarta and she played for East Kalimantan only for National Games 2008. With this kind of attitude by each local tennis association, each province will never properly develop their local talents. After all, it is ruining the overall tennis development nation wide. So, for wild card allocation in the future should be done wiser. Merit system should be applied transparently. With this current selfish practice, potential players will lose their opportunity to grow.
Q1 results
(1)Tadeja Majeric (SLO) v BYE
Jawairiah Noordin (MAS) d. Lauren Joanna Lang (INA) 60 60
Akshitha Basavaraju (IND) d. (2)Sophia Mulsap (THA) 62 64
Priscilla Anggrenny Oky-Suconong (INA) d. Ajeng Aquinia (INA) 62 62
(3)Nungnadda Wannasuk (THA) d. Zheng Jun-Yi (CHN) 63 64
Li Wanrong (CHN) d. Pang Yang (CHN) 63 61
(4)Liu Chang (CHN) d. Laili Rahmawati Ulfa (INA) 63 61
(12)Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic (GER) d. Tian Ran (CHN) 61 62
Zhao Di (CHN) d. (5)Kanyapat Narattana (THA) 62 63
Yang Yi (CHN) d. (9)Kei Sekine (JPN) 62 62
(6)Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA) d. Asha Nanda Kumar (IND) 60 63
(10)Renee Binnie (AUS) d. Nadia Frederika (INA) 63 63
(7)Kaori Onishi (JPN) d. Ma Le (CHN) 62 62
(11)Trang Huynh Phuong Dai (VIE) d. Pairin Panjasilpa (THA) 62 60
(8)Lu Jia Xiang (CHN) d. Chen Yen-Ling (TPE) 64 57 61
(13)Satjaporn Mahajaroenkul(THA) d. Dwi Aryana (INA) 60 61
Q2/Final Qualifying Results
(1)Tadeja Majeric (SLO) d. Jawairiah Noordin (MAS) 62 63
Priscilla Anggrenny Oky-Suconong (INA) d. Akshitha Basavaraju (IND) 75 76(5)
(3)Nungnadda Wannasuk (THA) d. Li Wanrong (CHN) 75 62
(4)Liu Chang (CHN) d. (12)Sarah-Rebecca Sekulic (GER) 60 46 63
Yang Yi (CHN) d. Zhao Di (CHN) 63 62
(6)Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA) d. (10)Renee Binnie (AUS) 61 62
(7)Kaori Onishi (JPN) d. (11)Trang Huynh Phuong Dai (VIE) 63 61
(13)Satjaporn Mahajaroenkul(THA) d. (8)Lu Jia Xiang (CHN) 76(1) 67(4) 75
Singles Main Draw
(1) Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) v Petra Pajalic (SLO)
Ayu-Fani Damayanti (INA) v (wc)Dian Anggraini (INA)
(Q)Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (THA) v (wc)Grace Sari Ysidora (INA)
(7)Seiko Okamoto (JPN) v (Q)Satjaporn Mahajaroenkul(THA)
(3)Zhang Ling (HKG) v (wc)Beatrice Gumulya (INA)
Reka-Luca Jani (HUN) v (Q)Liu Chang (CHN)
Jessy Rompies (INA) v (Q)Priscilla Anggrenny Oky-Suconong (INA)
(6/Q)Tadeja Majeric (SLO) v Dianne Hollands (NZL)
(5)Montinee Tangphong (THA) v Hao Jie (CHN)
Anna Fitzpatrick (GBR) v Lavinia Tananta (INA)
Yang Zi-Jun (HKG) v (Q)Kaori Onishi (JPN)
(4)Romana Tedjakusuma (INA) v Erika Sema (JPN)
(8)Nudnida Luangnam (THA) v (Q)Nungnadda Wannasuk (THA)
Ai Yamamoto (JPN) v He Chun-Yan (CHN)
Lu Jia-Jing (CHN) v (wc)Cynthia Melita (INA)
(2)Stefania Boffa (SUI) v (Q)Yang Yi (CHN)
Doubles Main Draw
(1)Yayuk Basuki/Romana Tedjakusuma (INA) v (wc)Dian Anggraini/Priscilla Anggreny Oky-Suconong (INA)
Renee Binnie/Dianne Hollands (AUS/NZL) v (Q)Lu Jia Xiang/Yang Yi (CHN)
(4)Seiko Okamoto/Erika Sema (JPN) v (wc) Cynthia Melita/Grace Sari Ysidora (INA)
Ayu Fani Damayanti/Lavinia Tananta (INA) v Sophia Mulsap/Ai Yamamoto (THA/JPN)
Tadeja Majeric/Petra Pajalic (SLO) v Montinee Tangphong/Nungnadda Wannasuk (THA)
(3)Emily Webley-Smith/Zhang Ling (GBR/HKG) v Hao Jie/Zheng Jun-Yi (CHN)
(Q)Lu Jia-Jing/Kei Sekine (CHN/JPN) v (wc)Jawairiah Noordin/Laili Rahmawati Ulfa (INA)
(2)Stefania Boffa/Anna Fitzpatrick (SUI/GBR) v Beatrice Gumulya/Jessy Rompies (INA)
Photos of Emily Webley-Smith by lta.org.uk; Zhang Ling by beijingopen08.cn; Stefania Boffa by wilson.ch; Tadeja Majeric by ztk.si; Montinee Tangphong by ericmcerlain
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