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Yayuk Basuki




She began playing tennis at the age of seven and turned professional in 1990 . In 1991 , she became the first Indonesian player to win a major professional tennis event when she captured the singles titles at Pattaya . She won six WTA Tour singles titles during her career (all of them in Asia ). She also won nine tour doubles titles, the most significant of which was the Canadian Open in 1997 . Her best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1997, where she reached the quarter-finals.

In January 1994 , she married Hary Suharyadi, who was also her coach. In September 1999 , she gave birth to her first child, Yary Nara Sebrio Suharyadi. She returned to playing on the tour the following year.

She retired from the professional tour in 2004 .

Her career-high world rankings were World No. 19 in singles and World No. 9 in doubles. Her career prize money totalled US$1,645,049.


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