Liza marches into semis

Liza marches into semis

JAKARTA (JP): Unseeded Indonesian Liza Andriani delighted her home fans with a surprising win for a semifinal berth in the Astra International junior tennis championships yesterday.

Playing her best tennis on clay, Liza breezed past Bryanne Stewart 6-3, 6-2 for a meeting with Akiko Morigami of Japan. The Japanese dashed the home crowd's hopes of seeing an all- Indonesian girls' singles semifinal when she overpowered Vania Prakusya 6-0, 6-0.

The other semifinal will pit Malaysian fourth seed Eline Chiew against Japanese seventh seed Inue Maiko. The two are the only seeded players left in the girls' singles competition.

In the men's singles, top seed Panja Saurav of India ended Indonesian Eduardus Bawono's run with an easy 6-2, 6-1 win. Saurav will now take on Sebastian Swierk of Australia, who beat Parmar Arvind of Britain 6-2, 6-4. (amd)