Surprisingly, Indonesian Tennis Player Jessy Rompies Beat The First Seed In Landisville

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JAKARTA - Indonesian tennis player Jessy Rompies and her partner Peangtarn Plipuech from Thailand continued the positive trend by defeating the first seed of the ITF World Tennis Tour W100 tournament titled Koser Jewelers Tennis Challenge in Landisville, United States, Tuesday local time.

They successfully advanced to the quarter-finals after defeating Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (Netherlands)/Greet Minnen (Belgium) with a score of 6-2, 4-6, [10-6].

"Today we can play calmly, but still aggressively," said Jessy after the match, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, August 11.

Jessy/Peangtarn will continue their struggle in the last eight on Thursday, against Cristina Bucsa (Spain)/Beatriz Haddad Maia (Brazil) who previously won easily over Mona Barthel (Germany)/Leonie Kung (Switzerland) in straight sets 6-1, 6-2.

Jessy/Peangtarn hope to be able to return to achieving maximum results in the match later. "Hopefully we can recover quickly because on Wednesday, we are off," said Jessy.

Jessy/Peangtarn attended the Jewelers Tennis Challenge Koser after last week, winning the WTA 125 Thoreau Tennis Open 2021 series title in Concord, USA.

In the final which took place on Sunday, August 8, they defeated Maitane Arconada (USA)/Catrina Bucsa (Spain) with a final score of 3-6, 7-6(5), [10-8].

Meanwhile, Indonesia also has one representative in the women's singles sector through Aldila Sutjiadi in the Jewelers Tennis Challenge Koser tournament, which previously made it through the qualifying round.

Aldila confirmed one slot in the main round with a total prize of 100,000 US dollars or around Rp. 1.4 billion after defeating the German representative Tatjana Maria with a score of 7-6(6), 6-4.

The two 2019 SEA Games gold winner will fight again in the first round against the host representative who occupies the eighth seed, Caty McNally, Wednesday local time.