Marlev and Rony in Swiss Open quarters

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Indonesia has two shuttlers still in the men's singles of the three-star Swiss Open, with Marlev Mainaky and Rony Agustinus making their way to the quarterfinals on Thursday evening.

Seeded first in the event, Marlev did not find it too difficult to quell Colin Haughton of England with a 7-3, 7-5, 7-2 victory at Basel's St. Jakobshalle.

Marlev is slated to have his quarterfinal match against Anders Boesen of Denmark later on Friday evening. Boesen also cruised easily to a win of 7-3, 7-5, 7-5 against German Bjorn Joppin.

In the lower leg, Rony made a major upset after defeating second seed Lee Hyun-il of South Korea in another easy match ending 7-4, 7-2, 7-1.

Rony's opponent in the quarterfinals will be Oedum Kasper of Denmark who beat Malaysian Nathan Ramesh 7-3, 7-1, 2-7, 7-5.

The other quarterfinal match will pit Ng Wei of Hong Kong against Dicky Palyama of the Netherlands. Malaysia secured a semifinals berth when Ayob Sairul Amar met James Chua.

Meanwhile in the men's doubles, Indonesia only managed to produce one quarterfinalist from three pairs participating in the event.

Bambang Suprianto and Sigit Budiarto defeated Simon Archer and Graham Durrel 7-5, 7-4, 3-7, 7-1 to face second seeds Michal Logosz and Robert Mateusiak from Poland who earlier beat South Malaysian pair Jeremy Gan and Ng Kean Kok with a 7-0, 7-1, 5-7, 7-3.

Indonesian head coach Christian Hadinata decided to remix two of his three men's doubles pairs for the Swiss Open.

Sigit usually teams up with Candra Wijaya, while Bambang often partners with Tri Kusheryanto. Candra and Tri were not able to play their match against Mathias Boe and Peter Steffensen of Denmark.

The third pair, Halim Heryanto and Nova Widhianto fell victim to Danish the duo of Michael Soogard and Michael Lamp after giving their best but losing at 7-5, 4-7, 7-4, 2-7, 7-1.