WIMBLEDON junior champion, world junior number five and Asia number four, Angelique Widjaja was as impressive as her credentials during play when she inflicted a 6-1, 6-1 whitewash on Belarus’s Al Habtoor regular, Nedejda Ostrovskaya yesterday in the $100,000 plus Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge.

On a busy second day when no less than 12 of the 14-match first round schedule were completed by 2100hrs, there were two upsets but not in the proportions of Day One when top seed Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus was shown the exit door by 18-year-old outsider, Russian Galina Fokina.

Alena Vaskova (Czech Republic), the seventh seed and world 126 went crashing in round one of the bottom half of the draw when team-mate Olga Blahatova, listed at 204, won 6-3, 6-2.

Following Vaskova was eighth seed Morrocan Bahia Mouhtassine, another Al Habtoor veteran.

Bahia fought back from the brink in the first set after being down 4-5 and against serve in the 10th to force out a 7-6 tie break decision in her favour against Belarusian Olga Barabanchiko.

Olga made amends with better controlled volleying and cross court shots to clinch the second set 6-3 and broke through Bahia’s armoury against serve in the ninth of the third set for 5-4 before wrapping up the issue 6-4 on her serve.

Stocky Bahia, rated 142 in the world, looked a tired player in the rubber against her taller and strongly built opponent. Her deep volleying suffered most as the returns without much punch were punished at will by the Belarusian world number 433.

Leading the seeds’ charge was Angelique with her superior court craft and intelligent play against Nedejda who found the going tough against the 17-year-old Bandung based Indonesian.

Angelique has the distinction of perhaps being the only player to have won a WTA tournament on debut when she won the previous $170,000 Bali Open. Angelique was then ranked 579 in the world and was given a wild card into the main draw on the strength of her being a promising local junior.

She has not looked back since.

Seeded six here and rated 128 in the world currently, Angelique found the conditions here to her liking. “The game was good but my opponent made a lot of errors on both hands,” she said.

Backed by her personal coach and ex-Indonesian Davis Cupper, Deddy Tedjamukti, the wiry Indonesian schoolgirl who these days only attend school part-time because of her fast improving status in the tennis world, won the first set 6-1 after breaking early against Nedejda.

The first set lasted hardly 18 minutes and the second went a few minutes longer because Nedejda was able to find better depth in her returns which the clever Angelique countered with a change in pace.

Angelique varied in her approach strokes by including the chip near the net and indulged in some serve and volley tactics to catch Nedejda on the wrong foot. Angelique’s forte, the forehand, hit with a lot of power but without much sound during impact between the ball and the strings, had the Belarusian baffled.

Denmark’s second seed Eva Dyrberg was to meet Italian Roberta Vinci in a late night game.

Angelique next runs into Al Habtoor senior, Frenchwoman Laurence Andretto and if she clears this, will probably have an interesting quarter-final clash with Eva in the bottom half.

Also in the bottom half, world 100 Seda Noorlander, who has big victories in her name against some of the big names in the WTA circuit, had a quick 6-2, 6-2 victory over team-mate Yvette Basting in a first round fixture.

Venezuelan debutant here, Maria Vento-Kabchi downed Luxembourg’s Claudine Schaul 6-0, 6-3, again in the bottom half.

Fifth seed Czech lady Klara Koukalova kept her second round appointment intact with a 7-5, 6-3 scoreline against German Adriana Barna of Germany.

Last year’s runner-up fourth seeded Aniko Kapros from Hungary was quick to get her second round warm-up with a 6-4, 6-0 first hurdle clearance over French entry Lea Girardi.

Austria’s Patricia Wartusch had to work hard for her 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 top half first round encounter against Italian Flavia Penetta.

In a clash of the qualifiers, Russian Ekaterina Syssoeva defeated Hong Kong’s top player Tong Ka Pong 6-2, 6-4.

In doubles action, the Klemenschits twins (Austria), Daniela and Sandra, sailed past Caroline-Ann Basu (Germany) and Maria Pavlidou 6-1, 6-2 while Russian pair Ekaternia and Goulnara Fattakhetdinc ousted Christine Fitz (Germany) and Eugenia Subbotina (Belarus) 7-5, 6-2.