Yayuk and Irawati go to circuit final

Yayuk and Irawati go to circuit final

JAKARTA (JP): Indonesia's former number one player Yayuk
Basuki demonstrated her world-class quality in her comeback to
professional tennis after a one-year maternity leave in 1999.

Partnered with Irawati Moerid Iskandar, who is also a national
old hand, they both cruised to the women's doubles final of the
US$10,000 Indonesia Women's Circuit-1 after an easy 6-1, 6-2 win
over Satoko Kurioka and Remi Tezuka of Japan on Saturday.

The Indonesians, who received wild cards to compete, will
challenge the South Korean pair of Choi Young-ja and Kim Eun-sook
on Sunday's final at the Kemayoran Tennis Center in Central
Jakarta.

Second seeds Choi and Kim outclassed their fellow countrywomen
Chung Yang-jin and Lee Eun-jeong 6-3, 6-1 in Saturday's
semifinals.

As of Saturday, Yayuk and Irawati had not lost a set since the
first round. In the Women's Circuit-2 next week, Yayuk has
planned to play in both the singles and doubles events.

In the singles event, top seed Lara Van Rooyen of South Africa
had to sweat it out to defeat Jeon Mi-ra of South Korea 6-7, 6-3,
6-4 in the semifinal.

Van Rooyen will fight number seven seed Chung Yang-jin of
South Korea, who beat teammate Choi 6-4, 6-2 on Saturday to
clinch the final berth.

Indonesia's singles players had earlier crashed out of the
tournament. (ivy)