Wynne cruises into Wellington final

Wynne cruises into Wellington final

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's young tennis hopeful Wynne Prakusya
cruises to the Wellington Women's International Tournament finals
today.

The 16-year-old Wynne, who also made it into the junior
Australian Open grand slam final last week, defeated Australian
Lechia Trewick 6-3, 6-3 yesterday.

Wynne, fourth seeded at the tournament, will meet second seed
Rewa Hudson of New Zealand in today's final.

Hudson won the final berth after Helena Vildova of the Czech
Republic retired from their match due to a right foot injury as
Hudson was leading 5-3 in their first set.

Wynne, who was a member of the Indonesian 19th SEA Games
tennis squad here last year, is the only national player to reach
a junior grand slam final.

Even senior Yayuk Basuki, world ranked 20, only ever made it
to the quarterfinals in a Wimbledon junior event in the late
1980s. She never won any of the top four junior crowns.

An Indonesian Embassy spokesman, P. Budi Prakoso, told Antara
in New Zealand that the Indonesians living there expected Wynne
to win the US$10,000 tournament.

In the women's doubles, Wynne and partner Jil-Iin Leong of
Singapore also reached the final after beating yesterday Siobhan
Munro of Australia and Niki Tippins of New Zealand 6-1, 7-5.

Wynne and Leong will meet Shelley Stephens of New Zealand and
Kym Hazzard of Australia in today's final. Stephens/Kym won in a
walkover against Vildova and Hudson because the Czech player was
injured. (yan)