Yayuk, Wynne get doubles Olympic wild card<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian women's doubles tennis players Yayuk
\nBasuki and Wynne Prakusya finally earned a wild card for the
\nOlympic Games in Sydney from Sept. 15 to Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
This is the second wild card awarded for Indonesia by the
\nInternational Olympics Committee (IOC). Wynne got one for the
\nsingles event in July following a decision from tripartite
\ncommission involving IOC, Asian National Olympics Committee
\n(ANOC) and International Tennis Federation (ITF).<\/p>\n
Wynne will make her world debut in the Olympics while old hand
\nYayuk is making her third appearance in the doubles event after
\nthe 1992 Games in Barcelona with Suzanna Anggarkusumah Wibowo and
\nthe 1996 Games in Atlanta, Georgia, with Romana Tedjakusuma.<\/p>\n
President of the Asian Tennis Federation and technical
\ndelegates of the Olympics Committee Eiichi Kawatei announced in a
\nletter to Pelti chairman Tanri Abeng on Wednesday that wild cards
\nwere also granted to women's doubles players Janet Lee and Wong
\nTzu-ting of Chinese Taipei and Cho Yoon-jeong and Park Sung-hee
\nof South Korea; men's doubles players Yoon Yong-il and Hyung-Taik
\nof South Korea; women's singles Li Na of China, Shinobu Asagoe of
\nJapan and Iroda Tulyaganova of Uzbekistan; and men's singles
\nLeander Paes of India and Paradorn Srichaphan of Thailand.<\/p>\n
No Asian men's singles managed to qualify for the quadrennial
\nevent but there are numerous players qualified due to their high
\nworld rankings.<\/p>\n
Women's singles Yi Jing-qian of China, Ai Sugiyama of Japan
\nand Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand; women's doubles Li Na and Li
\nTing of China, Sugiyama and Nana Miyagi of Japan, Tanasugarn and
\nBenjamas Sangaram of Thailand; and men's doubles Paes and Mahesh
\nBhupati of India and Satushi Iwabuchi and Thomas Shimada of Japan
\nare among the qualifiers.<\/p>\n
Spokesman for the Indonesian Tennis Association (Pelti) Benny
\nMailili said Thursday that except for Wynne, all wild card
\nappointees were recommended by ITF.<\/p>\n
\"I think the wild card for Yayuk and Wynne was given after
\nITF's recommendation. We earlier assumed that only Wynne would
\nget the facility but we didn't understand that ITF also has the
\nauthority to ask for it. ITF might have observed their
\nperformances during the Fed Cup in April. We initially ask for
\ntwo wild cards in the women's singles and doubles events,\" he
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Benny said Yayuk and Wynne would not face tough challengers
\nfrom Asian counterparts.<\/p>\n
\"Li Na and Li Ting are very young players in their 18s. While
\nTamarine and Benjamas are less skillful than our women's doubles.
\nI think Wynne and Yayuk are also better than Janet Lee and Wong,\"
\nhe said. (ivy)<\/p>",
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