Top seeds through to Cigna quarterfinals

Top seeds through to Cigna quarterfinals

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Suwandi and Febi Widhiyanto, who failed to bring Indonesia to the
next stage in the Davis Cup matches, chalked up easy wins over
their opponents to reach the Cigna Open tennis tournament
quarterfinals here on Thursday.

Top seed Suwandi faced no serious problems in dispatching
Hendri Davin 6-2, 6-0 while second seed and last year's winner
Febi eased past Sunu Wahyu Trijati 6-2, 6-1 at the Hilton
Executive Club tennis courts, according to Antara.

Indonesia lost to Uzbekistan 2-3 in the first round of the
Asia/Oceania Group One in Tashkent at the weekend.

Their fellow national players Peter Handoyo and Prima Simpati
Aji were also through to the next stage. Fifth seed Prima, whose
Tashkent trip appeared to be his Davis Cup debut, conceded only
two games in his 6-2, 6-0 drubbing of Ariawan Poerbo.

U.S.-based Peter, who has decided to stay to join the
tournament after his Davis Cup duty, had to work a little bit
harder in the second set before overcoming Nesa Artha 6-1, 6-4.

The sixth seed in the tournament skipped the previous events
because of his academic commitments.

The other four players in the quarterfinals include Dede
Suhendar Dinata, Ferdy Fauzi, Sebastian Dacosta and Hendri Susilo
Pramono.

Meanwhile, junior player Ayu Fani, Villa Daniela and Maya Rosa
were the surprise winners in the women's division, upsetting
their more rated opponents on the day.

Ayu humiliated fourth seed Eny Sulistyowati 7-5, 6-2. Villa
had an unexpected easy task in beating fifth seed Dian Anggraeni
6-2, 6-2 while Maya blanked Mudarwati 6-4, 6-0.

However, the top three seeds were unstoppable in their cruise
through to the next stage. Top seed and last year's winner Liza
Andriani lost only one game to stop Illiana Indica 6-1, 6-0.

Second seed Wukirasih Sawondari walked all over Nana Lidya
Luciana to win 6-1, 6-2, while third seed Sandy Gumulya outplayed
Nurma Mangunsong 6-3, 6-1.