Indonesian veterans Yayuk Basuki and Romana Tedjakusuma claimed their opening round victory at “ITF Incheon Women’s Challenger Tennis” in Incheon, South Korea on Tuesday (May 19, 2009). Placed as third seed, duo Basuki/Tedjakusuma booked a spot in quarterfinals after they eased past Aussie pair Lucia Gonzalez/Renee Lampret 6-1, 6-2 at Incheon Municipal Tennis Courts. In the last eight round, Basuki/Tedjakusuma will face local duet, Chang Kyung-Mi/Lee Jin-A who crushed local wild card pair Kang You-Jin/Kim Ji-Ae 6-1, 6-0.
In singles’ first round, only two matches were held in the opening day. Eighth seed Han Xinyun from China faced a difficulty in the second set but she prevailed over local wild card Han Na-Lae 6-2, 7-5. On the other hand, seventh seed Hwang I-Hsuan of Chinese Taipei had to fight quite hard as she was forced to drop the opening set but then she fought back to defeat China’s Xie Yan-Ze 6-7(3), 7-5, 6-2.
Doubles – 1st round results
(1) Lu Jing-Jing/Sun Sheng-Nan (CHN) d. WC-Chae Kyung-Yee/ Kim Ji-Young (KOR) 64 64
Ryoko Fuda/Ayaka Maekawa (JPN) d. Naomi Cavaday/Surina De Beer (GBR/RSA) 57 62 10-8
(3) Yayuk Basuki/Romana Tedjakusuma (INA) d. Lucia Gonzalez/Renee Lampret (AUS) 61 62
Chang Kyung-Mi/Lee Jin-A (KOR) d. WC-Kang You-Jin/Kim Ji-Ae (KOR) 61 60
Lena Litvak/Pemra Ozgen (USA/TUR) d. Tadeja Majeric/Vivian Segnini (SLO/BRA) 64 75
(4) Elena Chalova/Eugeniya Pashkova (RUS) d. Hwang I-Hsuan/Kao Shao-Yuan (TPE) 64 64
Maki Arai/ Liu Shaozhuo (JPN/CHN) d. WC-Hong Hyun-Hui/Kim Kun-Hee (KOR) 75 61
(2) Han Xinyun/Ji Chun-Mei (CHN) d. Lizaan Du Plessis/Shannon Golds (RSA/AUS) 63 64
Photo of Hwang I-Hsuan is courtesy of Getty Image
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