Former numero uno of Indonesia, Angelique "Angie" Widjaja returned to the scene where she used to be a star. At "OkeShop Tennis Open" tournament which began yesterday (April 21, 2009), Angie, as wild card but at the same time fifth seed here earned her opening round victory over another wild card, 14 years old Aldila Sutjiadi 6-2, 6-2. Former world's top 60 player, Angie lost her momentum in the early part of second set as she trailed 0-2 and her younger opponent forced her to face deuces. Then Angie broke Sutjiadi's serve and claimed her lead 3-2 then all the way to secure her win.
This tourney is the first leg of five and it is part of "Garuda Indonesia Tennis Series". Each leg provides total prize money of 150 million rupiahs and it will be held until April 26, 2009 at Rasuna Tennis Complex, Jakarta.
For the first time, "Garuda Indonesia Tennis Series" is not having umpire and line officials for the match. For Angie, she recalled her junior years when she used to play without supervision of an umpire. Umpire and line officials will be present from quarterfinals.
In the next round, Angie will face "come back" Maya Rosa who disposed Prima Lestari 6-2 6-3. Rosa was known as a talented player and she is in the same age group with Sandy Gumulya and Septi Mende. Also advancing into second round were wild card Nadya Syarifah who ousted Dwi Rahayu Pitri 6-2, 6-2. Meanwhile Bella Destriana from South Sumatera crushed a girl from Solo in Central Java, Nathania Ratih 6-0, 6-0. Fourth seed Mia Sacca also cruised into the next round together with sixth seed Laili Rahmawati Ulfa. Sacca booted out Dina Azwar 6-1, 6-2, while Ulfa saw-off Lauren Lang 6-1, 6-1. Other winners were Rani Fitria Wardhani of Yogyakarta who edged past Voni Darlina 6-3, 7-6(7), then Vanesa Gunawan cruised past Asifa Ramadhani 6-2, 6-1 and Evita Febrihapsari eased past Feronika Katarina 6-1, 6-0. Shock of the day was made by Vita Taher who fought hard to beat eighth seed Dewi Fortuna 6-1, 1-6, 6-4.
Today the tourney continued with the remaining first round matches. In the battle of Semarang residents, top seed Lavinia Tananta crushed Cynthia Claire Mulyadi 6-0, 6-0. While second seed Jessy Rompies faced a scare but she managed to win over wild card Nadia Frederika 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 as her head coach Suzanna Anggarkusuma and her parents looked on. Third seed Beatrice Gumulya did not have to work hard as she breezed past Kely Restiani Putri 6-0, 6-2. Just arrived from Australia, seventh seed Cynthia Melita had an easy otuing as she crushed Cynthia Wibawa 6-1, 6-0. Last but not least, Dina Karina and Tria Rizki Amalia had to complete their battle today due to rain delay yesterday. In the end, Karina had better mental toughness as she prevailed to beat Amalia 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.
In men's category, Ivan Regan Krijanto edged past Louis Theodor 6-2 6-2. Meanwhile,
Setyo Dwi Adrianto, a player from Semarang ousted Prisca Titan 6-1 6-1. Then former numero uno of Indonesia, Febi Widhiyanto had a slight difficulty in the second set but he overcame such problem and won over Limpad Nurahmad 6-2 7-6(4).
Photo of Angelique Widjaja is courtsy of Iwan Tri Wahyudi/IndoPos
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