Angelique defeats bug and opponent

Angelique defeats bug and opponent

Agence France-Presse, Pattaya, Thailand

Indonesia's Angelique Widjaja overcame both a stomach upset and
Sandra Kleinova on Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the
women's open in the Thai resort of Pattaya.

She defeated her Czech opponent 6-4, 6-1 on just a few hours
sleep after waking at dawn to consult a doctor.

Angelique's sluggish performance went unpunished by Kleinova.
The Indonesian failed to convert three break points when leading
2-1, but finally broke on her sixth break point to lead 5-3.

Although she then dropped her own serve by sending an easy
ball beyond the baseline, she broke again to love to take the
set.

In the second set, Angelique swiftly built a 4-0 lead as
Kleinova struggled with her serve. She exploited the weakness on
one occasion by hitting a winning drop shot return, and Kleinova
finished with 11 double-faults.

"I'm happy because I won, but I'm not playing at 100 percent.
I wasn't confident today with my ground strokes," Angelique said.

"But my serve was working today and that helped me a lot. I'm
surprised this week that I'm getting about 80 percent of my
first serves in."

In the quarterfinals match, Angelique will face Japanese
Shinobu Asagoe, who also advanced by outlasting Russia's
Anastassia Rodionova 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Silvija Talaja was the only seed in action on Thursday. After
being taken to three sets in her opening match the Croatian
eighth seed was forced into another long struggle by French
qualifier Stephanie Cohen Aloro before emerging with a 6-3, 3-6,
6-1 victory.

"I don't know what it is. It's always a drama with me," said
Talaja, who finished strongly by dropping just four points on
serve in the final set.

"I came here tired but I like Pattaya so much I had to come,"
she added. "In the third set I was taking risks on every point
and playing more aggressive."

There was victory for 221st-ranked Russian wild card Lina
Krasnoroutskaya, who continued her comeback from a long injury
break by beating Magdalena Grzybowska of Poland 6-3, 6-1.