Acute diarrhea knocks Yayuk out<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Yayuk Basuki lost her dreams of winning her
\nIndonesia Women's Open singles title for a record fourth time as
\nacute diarrhea forced her to retire in yesterday's semifinal
\nbattle against Irina Spirlea of Rumania.<\/p>\n
Playing at the hot Senayan tennis stadium, defending champion
\nand second seed Yayuk took the opening set but was 4-6 down in
\nthe second as she opted to hand the final ticket to her sixth
\nseed rival.<\/p>\n
World number 43 Spirlea will race for the winner's US$26,500
\nprize money in today's final against top seed Sabine Hack of
\nGermany, who scored an overpowering 6-0, 6-1 win over Maria
\nStrandlund of Sweden in the previous semifinal match yesterday.<\/p>\n
Yayuk clearly indicated that she was suffering from stomach
\nproblems when she took two toilet break in the second set. She
\nhad earlier complained about digestive strains during her
\nquaterfinal match against doubles partner Nana Miyagi on Friday,
\nbut managed to march on to a three-set win.<\/p>\n
\"Yayuk began to feel bad after having a bowl of cereal for
\nbreakfast Friday morning,\" Suharyadi, Yayuk's coach and husband,
\ntold a press conference. \"She might have put too much chilly on
\nher meal.\"<\/p>\n
Suharyadi admitted the exhibition match against Martina
\nNavratilova on Wednesday gave Yayuk excessive pressures. \"Her
\nbody could not scope with that heavy burden,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Spirlea got off to a slow start yesterday, misfiring her
\nstrokes to drop her serve in the sixth game of the first set. The
\nRumanian bounced back in the next stage which saw both players
\nbreak each other's serve in the last five games.<\/p>\n
Yayuk should not have dropped the eighth game when she raced
\nto 40-0 ahead. But Spirlea drilled her banging forehand to take
\nfive points in a row. She inflicted a deciding break after Yayuk
\nnetted her powerless stop ball.<\/p>\n
\"I'm quite happy that Yayuk managed at least the semifinal
\nberth,\" said Suharyadi. Yayuk, who failed to show up at the
\nconference because of medical treatment, walked away with a
\n$6,200 cash prize.<\/p>\n
Spirlea maintained her winning track in the doubles as her
\nsolid partnership with German Claudia Porwik disposed off
\nstruggling Swedes Strandlund and Maria Lindstrom 6-3, 6-1. The
\nSweden pair take on the Belgian team of Laurence Courtois and
\nNancy Feber, who earned a walk-over win over Yayuk and Miyagi.<\/p>\n
The tennis extravaganza will continue with the $300,000
\nIndonesia Men's Open, starting tomorrow.(amd)<\/p>",
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