Young players win opener at Masters<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): In the absence of national top players, young
\ntennis prodigies blasted their way to their opening wins over
\ntheir seniors at the Indonesia Masters championships yesterday.<\/p>\n
Women's singles top seed Irawati Moerid, national number four,
\nbecame the biggest casualty at the opening day of the season-
\nending tournament played at Hilton tennis court when she went
\ndown 0-6, 6-7 (4-7) at the hand of Maria Veronica.<\/p>\n
Teenager Agustine Limanto came from behind to spoil second
\nseed Tanya Soemarno's championship campaign, winning 3-6, 6-2, 6-
\n2 after one and a half hour of a hard-fought battle.<\/p>\n
Another second stringer, Eny Sulistyowati, who is seeded
\nthird, also got off to a flying start when she trounced Lamsriati
\nMoerid 6-0, 6-0.<\/p>\n
Men's singles number one Benny Wijaya, Indonesia's tennis
\nqueen Yayuk Basuki, last year's women's singles champion Romana
\nTedjakusuma and women's singles number three Natalia Soetrisno
\nskip the Rp 50 million (US$25,000) tournament which serves as an
\nappetizer for the national congress held by the Indonesian Tennis
\nAssociation (Pelti) at the week-end in Denpasar, Bali.<\/p>\n
The congress will elect Pelti's new board members for the next
\nfour-year term. Incumbent Cosmas Batubara, former Minister of
\nManpower, has indicated that he preferred a \"regreening\" in the
\nnew board.<\/p>\n
Yayuk was allowed to miss the tennis meet since her world
\nranking of 29 extremely overshadows those of other players.
\nRomana opted to pull out of the week-long tournament due to her
\nillness.<\/p>\n
Benny and Natalia are having their overseas program in
\nAustralia.<\/p>\n
Men's singles defending champion Suwandi sailed to a
\ncomfortable 6-3, 6-4 opening win over Aga Soemarno and looks set
\nto retain his title.<\/p>\n
Suwandi's fellow Davis Cup team member Dony Susetyo struggled
\nall the way but managed to tame former national top player Dede
\nSuhendar 7-5, 6-4. (amd)<\/p>",
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