Angelique Widjaja

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Angelique Widjaja
黄依林

Country (sports)	Indonesia
Residence	Bandung, Indonesia
Born	(1984-12-12) 12 December 1984 (age 36) Bandung, Indonesia
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Turned pro	1999
Retired	2008
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$533,037
Singles
Career record	118–86
Career titles	2 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 55 (31 March 2003)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian Open	1R (2003, 2004)
French Open	2R (2002)
Wimbledon	2R (2002, 2003)
US Open	2R (2002)
Doubles
Career record	103–69
Career titles	2 WTA, 6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 15 (2 February 2004)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	QF (2004)
French Open	3R (2002)
Wimbledon	QF (2003, 2004)
US Open	QF (2003)
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2004)
French Open	QF (2004)
Wimbledon	1R (2004)
US Open	1R (2004)
hide Medal record Asian Games Women's Tennis 2002 Busan Women's Team 2002 Busan Women's Doubles Southeast Asian Games 2007 Thailand Women's Team

Angelique Widjaja (Chinese: 黄依林; pinyin: Huang Yīlín; born 12 December 1984) is a retired Indonesian professional tennis player. She won the junior championships at Wimbledon in 2001, defeating Dinara Safina. She reached a peak of No. 55 in the WTA singles rankings in March 2003, and a peak of No. 15 in the doubles rankings in February 2004. She retired in 2008.

Career[]

Widjaja started playing tennis at the age of four. She first began playing at ITF juniors events in 1998 at the age of 13. Her first professional event was an event in Jakarta in April 1999, when she was 14 years old.

She enjoyed considerable success as a junior player. In 2001, she won the singles competition of the junior championships at Wimbledon, defeating Dinara Safina 6–4, 0–6, 7–5. In so doing, she became the first Indonesian to win any title at Wimbledon. In 2002, she won the doubles competition of the Australian Open Junior Championships, partnered by Gisela Dulko. That year, she also won the singles competition of the junior championships at the French Open. She reached a peak junior rank of No. 2. Also, she obtained an invite from "Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association" to play The Hong Kong Ladies Challenge in January 2002.

The first WTA Tour tournament she won was the 2001 Wismilak International in Bali, a Tier III event, which she entered at the age of 16 on a wildcard.^[1][2] She was the youngest Indonesian ever to win a WTA singles title. Her WTA singles rank prior to the tournament was No. 579, and as such was the lowest-ranked player ever to win a WTA singles title.

2002 was her most successful year in Grand Slam singles competition, reaching the second round at three consecutive majors. At the French Open, she defeated Jill Craybas in the first round. She was beaten by Evie Dominikovic in the second round. At Wimbledon, she beat 15th seed Anna Smashnova in the first round, before losing to Meilen Tu in round two. At the US Open, she beat Anna Kournikova in the first round, and was eliminated in the next round by Stéphanie Foretz.

Widjaja represented Indonesia at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, collecting a silver medal in the women's doubles with partner Wynne Prakusya, and also the gold medal in the team event.

In November 2002, she won a second WTA tournament, the Tier V event at Pattaya.

She continued to perform well in the WTA tour through 2003. After her third round exit from the Tier I tournament at Indian Wells in 2003, she reached her career's highest rank: No. 55. She remained in the top 100 for the remainder of 2003.

From 2003 to 2004, Widjaja enjoyed considerable success in doubles competition, primarily partnered by María Vento-Kabchi. The pair reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon and the US Open in 2003, and the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2004. They also won a Tier III WTA Tour event at Bali in 2003, and reached the final of one Tier I event, the 2003 Canada Masters. Following the 2004 Australian Open, Widjaja reached No. 15 in the WTA doubles rankings. This was her peak doubles rank.

Through 2004, Widjaja appeared in the mixed-doubles competition of all four majors. Her best result came at the French Open, where she and partner Lucas Arnold Ker beat Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova to reach the quarterfinals. There, they lost to the French pair Tatiana Golovin and Richard Gasquet.

Widjaja played at the 2004 Summer Olympics at Athens. She defeated Tamarine Tanasugarn in the first round of the singles competition, but was beaten by Karolina Šprem in the second round. She also took part in the doubles competition, partnered by Wynne Prakusya, and they were eliminated in the first round.

Through 2005, Widjaja took a hiatus from professional tennis due to various injuries. Following her return in 2006, she did not replicate her previous success, and did not take part in any singles competitions in WTA or ITF events after that year, but did remain active in doubles competition.

In 2007, she was part of the Indonesian women's team that won the silver medal at the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand.

In 2008, at the age of 23, Widjaja and partner Liza Andriyani won the doubles competition of an ITF tournament in Jakarta. This would be Widjaja's last tournament, as shortly afterwards she announced that she was quitting the professional tour, saying she was burnt out by the injuries and travel requirements.^[3]

During her professional career, Widjaja had recorded wins over several prominent players including Dinara Safina, Jelena Janković, Alicia Molik, Anna Smashnova, Anna Kournikova and Tamarine Tanasugarn. She was mainly coached by Meiske H. Wiguna and Deddy Tedjamukti.

Also, she was part of the Indonesia Fed Cup team in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006.

WTA career finals[]

Singles (2 titles)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	1.	30 September 2001	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	Joannette Kruger	7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–4)
Winner	2.	10 November 2002	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Cho Yoon-jeong	6–2, 6–4

Doubles (2 titles, 4 runner-ups)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	29 April 2002	Bol, Croatia	Clay	Tathiana Garbin	Elena Bovina Henrieta Nagyová	7–5, 3–6, 6–4
Runner-up	1.	10 February 2003	Doha, Qatar	Hard	María Vento-Kabchi	Wynne Prakusya Janet Lee	1–6, 3–6
Runner-up	2.	19 May 2003	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Rita Grande	Liezel Huber Jill Craybas	4–6, 6–7(6–8)
Runner-up	3.	11 August 2003	Toronto, Canada	Hard	María Vento-Kabchi	Martina Navratilova Svetlana Kuznetsova	6–3, 1–6, 1–6
Winner	2.	8 September 2003	Bali, Indonesia	Hard	María Vento-Kabchi	Nicole Pratt Émilie Loit	7–5, 6–2
Runner-up	4.	3 November 2003	Pattaya, Thailand	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	Sun Tiantian Li Ting	4–6, 3–6

ITF finals[]

Singles (1–1)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	12 August 2001	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Hsieh Su-wei	6–7(4–7), 2–6
Winner	2.	7 April 2002	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Shinobu Asagoe	7–6(7–4), 6–2

Doubles (6–2)[]

Outcome	No.	Date	Location	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	5 November 2000	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Liza Andriyani	Kim Jin-hee Chae Kyung-yee	2–4, 5–3, 4–2, 0–4, 4–0
Winner	2.	12 November 2000	Bandung, Indonesia	Hard	Liza Andriyani	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	4–1, 4–2, 4–0
Winner	3.	12 March 2001	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Hard	Dea Sumantri	Kim Jin-hee Chae Kyung-yee	6–3, 6–2
Winner	4.	13 August 2001	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Kim Jin-hee Chae Kyung-yee	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
Runner-up	1.	1 April 2002	Dubai, UAE	Hard	Bahia Mouhtassine	Seda Noorlander Kirstin Freye	2–6, 4–6
Winner	5.	7 November 2006	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Kim Hea-mi Keiko Taguchi	w/o
Runner-up	2.	12 November 2007	Pune, India	Clay	Wynne Prakusya	Zhang Ling Varatchaya Wongteanchai	6–1, 5–7, [5–10]
Winner	6.	4 August 2008	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Liza Andriyani	Kim Jin-hee Chen Yi	6–3, 6–1

Junior Grand Slam finals[]

Girls' singles (2–0)[]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Opponent	Score
Winner	2001	Wimbledon	Grass	Dinara Safina	6–4, 0–6, 7–5
Winner	2002	French Open	Clay	Ashley Harkleroad	3–6, 6–1, 6–4

Girls' doubles (1–0)[]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	2002	Australian Open	Hard	Gisela Dulko	Svetlana Kuznetsova Matea Mezak	6–2, 5–7, 6–4

Performance timelines[]

Singles[]

• ¹ Includes ITF tournaments.
• ² The sum of wins/losses by year records from the WTA website does not add up to the career record presented on the same website.

Doubles[]

• ¹ Includes ITF tournaments.
• ² The sum of wins/losses by year records from the WTA website does not add up to the career record presented on the same website.

Mixed doubles[]

Awards[]

• Achievement Award 2001 – the Asian Tennis Federation
• The Best Women Athlete of Indonesia 2001 – RCTI

References[]

External links[]

• Angelique Widjaja at the Women's Tennis Association
• Angelique Widjaja at the International Tennis Federation
• Official website
• Angelique Widjaja Turnamen Pembuka 2003 (in Indonesian)