{"id":17479,"date":"2025-08-25T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17479"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:04:11","slug":"indonesias-tjen-downs-24th-seed-kudermetova-in-early-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17479","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia&#8217;s Tjen downs 24th seed Kudermetova in early upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Indonesian qualifier Janice Tjen scored an early upset at the US Open on Sunday, ousting Russian 24th seed Veronika Kudermetova in three sets to advance to the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Tjen &#8212; who is the first Indonesian to play in the singles main draw of a tennis Grand Slam since Angelique Widjaja at the 2004 US Open &#8212; showed superb poise to prevail 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Jakarta-born right-hander took control in the first set, breaking Kudermetova twice before serving out at 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>While Kudermetova hit back to level in the second set, Tjen was soon back on the front foot in the decider.<\/p>\n<p>She grabbed a break in the opening game, and preserved that advantage before confidently holding to love to clinch victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means a lot,&#8221; Tjen said of her win. &#8220;I feel proud to be able to do this for my country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully me making appearance here will inspire more tennis players and believing they can be here too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tjen, ranked 149th in the world, will face Britain&#8217;s Emma Raducanu in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian said she had been inspired by watching Raducanu&#8217;s fairytale US Open victory in 2021 while studying at Pepperdine University in California.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Emma won the tournament and having an incredible run here, I was actually in college, and I was injured at the time,&#8221; Tjen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just seeing her doing it inspired me to be able to do it as well.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian qualifier Janice Tjen scored an early upset at the US Open on Sunday, ousting Russian 24th seed Veronika Kudermetova in three sets to advance to the second round. Tjen &#8212; who is the first Indonesian to play in the singles main draw of a tennis Grand Slam since Angelique Widjaja at the 2004 US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}