Five Indonesian players advance in Futures tournament
Five Indonesian players advance in Futures tournament
JAKARTA (JP): Five Indonesian men's singles players cruised on
Wednesday into the second round of the Indonesia Futures F5
tournament at the Danamon tennis complex in Kemayoran, Central
Jakarta.
Sebastian Da Costa from East Timor crushed wild card Edy
Kusdaryanto 6-4, 6-3. Da Costa will meet eighth seeded Tetsuya
Chaen of Japan, who had to fight hard to win 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 over
Vaclac Duda of the Czech Republic.
Hendri Susilo Pramono, a member of the national team, sent
home Yasutomo Nakase of Japan 6-4, 6-3. His next match will be
against Frantisek Babej of Slovakia. Third seeded Babej survived
to beat Phoemphon Atabut of Thailand 7-5, 6-4.
Qualifier Tjahjono also reached the second round, after
defeating national team member Yusmawan Fahmi 6-2, 7-5. Tjahjono
will challenge fourth seeded Akira Matsushita of Japan, who
defeated Bjorn Jacob of Germany 6-4, 6-2.
National team member Febi Widhiyanto eliminated compatriot
Ferdy Fauzi 6-4, 6-4. Febi will meet seventh seeded Juraj Hasko
of Slovakia, who was barely raised a sweat for his 6-1, 6-1
victory over Hans Grobecker of Sweden.
After a drawn out match, Suwandi managed to overcome Josef
Nesticky of the Czech Republic 6-7 (7-9), 6-2, 6-1. Suwandi will
face second seeded Danai Udomchoke of Thailand, who gave a free
lesson to Surya Wijaya by winning 6-0, 6-0.
Top seeded Jan Hermansson of Sweden recovered to overcome Minh
Le of the United States 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Hermansson will face
unseeded Robert Krause of South Africa, who beat Niko Karagiannis
of Greece 7-6 (7-4), 6-3.
Fifth seeded Aisam Qureshi of Pakistan eliminated old hand
Suhendar Dinata of Indonesia 6-1, 6-3. Qureshi will meet Kamil
Blaha of the Czech Republic, who won 6-4, 6-2 over Ekkarin
Pisuth-Arnoth of Thailand.
In the doubles, the Indonesian new partnership of Artha Nesa
and Eko Kurniawan bowed out to Steven Byl and Ruber de Kleijn of
the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4. Ferly Montolalu and Naharuddin also
failed to move on to the next round after losing to Pracharapon
Khamsaman and Udomchoke of Thailand 6-1, 6-2. (yan)