Sanchez-Vicario and yayuk waltz to Bali 2nd round

Sanchez-Vicario and yayuk waltz to Bali 2nd round

NUSA DUA, Bali (JP): Indonesian doubles tennis players cruised
to the quarterfinals round of the US$170,000 WTA Tour Wismilak
International tournament here on Wednesday.

Veteran tennis player Yayuk Basuki made a pair with world
number 18 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, while Wynne Prakusye jumped to
the next round with Janet Lee of Chinese Taipei. Also having an
easy time were Indonesian tennis prodigy Angelique Widjaja who
was teamed up with American Tracy Almeda-Singian.

Seeded third here were Yayuk and Sanchez-Vicario, who did not
find it difficult to best Australian Annabel and Japanese Haruka
Inoue 6-1, 6-2.

The old hands are on their way to meet Maria Diaz-Oliva of
Argentina and Marlene Weingartner of Germany, who found strong
opposition from host Romana Tedjakusuma and Hsieh Su-Wei before
closing with a 7-5, 6-4 victory.

The winner of this second round match will face the winners of
a match between Wynne and Lee against the Australian pair of
Alicia Molik and Nicole Pratt.

Unlike the veterans, second seeds Wynne and Lee were forced to
play in three sets against Japanese Shinobu Asagoe and Tina
Pisnik of Slovenia. Although they won the first set 6-4, Wynne
and Lee lost the second set 6-7 (2-8). They did manage to bounce
back and grab the third set with a 6-2 victory.

Meanwhile, the Australians had an easy 6-2, 6-2 victory over
Chinese pair of Liu Nan Nan and Yi Jing-Qian.

In the upper leg, Angelique, better known as Angie, and
Almeda-Sangian kept a 4-0 lead in the first set when their
opponents, Rossana de Los Rios of Paraguay and Joannette Kruger
of South Africa, retired from the match after Kruger suffered
heat stroke.

Angie and Almeda-Sangian will then see Swiss Emmanuelle
Gagliardi and American Tu Meilen who fought hard before downing
fourth seeds Liezel Huber of South Africa and Rachel McQuillan of
Australia.

Gagliardi and Tu lost the first set 6-3 before bouncing back
easily in the second set 6-1. The match was getting tighter in
the decider before Gagliardi and Tu finished at 7-6 (8-4).

Another quarterfinals match will see Evie Dominikovic of
Australia and Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand face Australian
Mireille Dittmann and Japanese Keiko Tameishi.

Dominikovic and Tamarine were also engaged in a close match
before toppling first seeds Alexandra Fusai of France and Rita
Grande of Italy to win with a 6-7 (8-4), 7-5, 6-1 victory.

Meanwhile, Dittmann and Tameishi had an all-out victory over
the Korean pair of Cho Yoon-jeong and Jeon Mi-ra.

In the singles events, Tamarine eased her way into the
quarterfinals taking just 65 minutes to overcome Fusai 6-3, 6-2.

Pisnik overcame Italy's Roberta Vinci also with the same score
of 6-3, 6-2.

There was victory in the cards for fifth-seeded Grande and
eighth-seeded Kruger.

Grande beat Yi 6-4, 6-1 and Kruger also reached the
quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Dominikovic.

Dominikovic received a warning for hitting a ball out of the
stands after going down three set points at the end of the first
set, and then calling for attention to her right leg halfway
through the second set. (54)