Swede too strong for Wynne

Swede too strong for Wynne

KUALA LUMPUR (Agencies): Indonesia's top women's singles player Wynne Prakusya fell to experienced Swede Asa Carlsson 6-3, 6-0 in the second round of the US$180,000 Wismilak International '99 here on Thursday.

Tennis observer Benny Mailili, who is also spokesman of the Indonesian Tennis Association (Pelti), said Wynne did not serve and return well against Carlsson, whose world ranking was as high as 28 in 1997.

"Wynne lost because of her lack of consistency in rallies against the experienced Carlsson," he said.

Wynne lost her serve at the outset of the match to trail 0-2. She took one game before Carlsson raced to a 5-1 lead. Wynne began to fight back by taking two consecutive games but the Swede closed out the set.

Wynne was whitewashed in the second set as Carlsson romped to victory in one hour and 10 minutes. But the score was not indicative of the closeness of the set, with Wynne taking every game to deuce except the fifth game on her opponent's serve.

Carlsson will meet Anastasia Myskina of Russia who upset top seed Sarah Pitkowski of France 2-6, 6-1, 7-5.

Second seed Sylvia Plischke of Austria went down tamely to Italian Rita Grande 1-6, 3-6. Grande will face Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand, who crushed seventh seed Nicole Pratt of Australia 6-3, 4-7, 7-5.

Sixth seed Kristina Brandi of the United States defeated Olga Barabanschikova of Belarus 1-6, 6-3, 6-4. (yan)