Yayuk defeats Tauziat, moves into fourth round
Yayuk defeats Tauziat, moves into fourth round
LONDON (Agencies): Indonesia's Yayuk Basuki made it to the fourth round of the Wimbledon tennis championships for the fourth time in a row after putting an end to Frenchwomen Nathalie Tauziat's giant-killing run yesterday.
Yayuk produced a superb comeback from a first set down to claim a 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 win over Tauziat, and now is trying to break her Wimbledon jinx by making her first quarterfinal appearance. Yayuk now plays big-serving Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in the last 16 round.
A confident Indonesian appeared comfortable on the Wimbledon grass court as she did everything right. Her stylish forehands and backhand slices kept Tauziat running.
Yayuk scared her fans with her shaky first serves, but Tauziat, who ousted fifth seed and Australian champion Mary Pierce in the second round, hit too many wide returns in the deciding set.
Tauziat, who also lost to Yayuk in the opening round of the Australian Open last year, saved two match points before she hit a long return which sealed her fate.
Earlier, Goran Ivanisevic, twice a finalist but determined to go one step further this year and claim the most coveted title in tennis, powered his way into the fourth round at Wimbledon yesterday with a straight-sets victory over Frenchman Arnaud Boetsch.
The 23-year-old fourth-seeded Croatian once again made a mockery of Wimbledon's attempts to slow down matches by using less-pressurized balls by slamming down another score of aces on a sun-baked center-court to score a 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory in just 84 minutes.
The stylish 26-year-old Boetsch, who lost his only previous match to Ivanisevic in Stockholm in 1993, had no answer to Ivanisevic's power and when he charged the net he was left stranded by bullet passing shots.
Ivanisevic now faces another big-server in Todd Martin of the United States who claimed a come-from-behind 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 win over fellow-American Derrick Rostagno in a thriller.
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