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        "id": 1391366,
        "msgid": "currency-crisis-might-hit-players-1447893297",
        "date": "1998-01-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "Currency crisis might hit players",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Currency crisis might hit players MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Indonesian tennis star Yayuk Basuki fears the Southeast Asian currency crisis might halt advances made by players from the region. Yayuk joined Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn in the fourth round of the Australian Open yesterday with a 6-4, 6-4 win over number 14 seed Dominique van Roost of Belgium.",
        "content": "<p>Currency crisis might hit players<\/p>\n<p>MELBOURNE, Australia (AP): Indonesian tennis star Yayuk Basuki<br>\nfears the Southeast Asian currency crisis might halt advances<br>\nmade by players from the region.<\/p>\n<p>Yayuk joined Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugarn in the fourth<br>\nround of the Australian Open yesterday with a 6-4, 6-4 win over<br>\nnumber 14 seed Dominique van Roost of Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>Currencies in both nations have received a battering and<br>\nIndonesia's rupiah had a stunning 30 percent fall against the<br>\nUnited States dollar last week.<\/p>\n<p>Tennis can bring players enormous riches - Basuki has made<br>\nmore than US$1.3 million in prize money - but it also drains the<br>\nresources of those starting out. Newcomers need sponsors to pay<br>\nfor the constant travel.<\/p>\n<p>Yayuk, who has a ranking of 24, feels she is cushioned against<br>\nthe economic woes of her homeland, but believes it will affect<br>\nothers coming through.<\/p>\n<p>\"Right now, it doesn't bother me because I'm traveling around<br>\nand my ranking is already up there,\" Yayuk, 27, said. \"But I know<br>\nit's going to affect things a lot for somebody who is still<br>\nranked at 300 or 400 because for them its a case of still trying<br>\nto get more sponsors to pay their loans.\"<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 Indonesian women on the rankings with Liza<br>\nAndriyani the next highest at 380.<\/p>\n<p>Yayuk, who will make her first fourth round Grand Slam<br>\nappearance outside Wimbledon, where she achieved the stage from<br>\n1992 to 1995, said she loved watching Asian players succeed in<br>\ntop class tennis.<\/p>\n<p>But she believes it is tougher for Asians, except Japanese, to<br>\novercome the limitations of their birthplace.<\/p>\n<p>\"I came through when I was 20, which may have been a little<br>\nlate and I'm still trying to make it up,\" Yayuk said.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's not easy for players from East Asia to get a sponsor, to<br>\nget the market the same as in the United States or Europe.\"<br>\nYayuk said the Japanese were an exception.<\/p>\n<p>\"They are starting earlier and I think the market for a tennis<br>\nprofessional player is very good in Japan. That is not the same<br>\nin East Asia at the moment.\"<\/p>",
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