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Yayuk Basuki

Yayuk Basuki (born 30 November 1970) is an Indonesian former professional tennis player who is now a politician. She is the highest-ever ranked tennis player from Indonesia, having reached No. 19 in singles in the WTA rankings in October 1997. She retired from playing singles in 2000, but remained an active doubles player on the circuit until 2013.

She sat in the Indonesian House of Representatives between 2014 and 2019. In January 2018, she was elected Chair of the Indonesian Olympian Association (IOA) for a four-year term. She unsuccessfully ran for re-election in 2019.

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). Her best singles performance at a Grand Slam event came at Wimbledon in 1997, where she reached the quarterfinals by defeating Ai Sugiyama, Inés Gorrochategui, Naoko Kijimuta and Patricia Hy-Boulais before losing to Jana Novotná.

During her career, she has recorded wins over Amélie Mauresmo, Mary Joe Fernández, Lindsay Davenport, Gabriela Sabatini, Magdalena Maleeva, Anke Huber, Iva Majoli, Anna Kournikova, Zina Garrison, and Mary Pierce. She also became only the second Indonesian woman to win the Asian Games singles gold medal, after Lita Liem Sugiarto in 1974, when she defeated Tamarine Tanasugarn in Bangkok at the 1998 games. She was the first player to be beaten by Lindsay Davenport in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, at the US Open in 1992.

She represented Indonesia at the Summer Olympic Games in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000. 1992 in Barcelona, she defeated Mercedes Paz and Mary Pierce to reach the third round of the singles competition, where she was beaten by Jennifer Capriati.

She is also a successful doubles player, often pairing with Nana Miyagi and later Caroline Vis, and reached the top 10 (No. 9 on 6 July 1998). She won nine tour doubles titles, the most significant of which was the Canadian Open in 1997 and qualified for the season-ending WTA Championships as one of the best eight teams of the year three times, 1996–98. Her best result in doubles competition at a Grand Slam event was in the 1993 US Open, where she and partner Nana Miyagi reached the semifinals.

In the mixed doubles, Basuki reached the quarterfinals at the French Open in 1995 with Kenny Thorne as her partner. In 1997, she reached the same stage at Wimbledon, this time paired with Tom Nijssen.

Her career-high world rankings were world No. 19 in singles and No. 9 in doubles.

Basuki is now a coach, tennis commentator for TV and print media and a consultant to the sports minister. She also was a WTA Tour mentor to rising Indonesian star Angelique Widjaja.

Basuki retired from the professional circuit in 2004, but in March 2008 she made a return to the ITF Circuit playing exclusively in doubles, and has since won six more ITF titles. She won the $10k event at Bangkok in June with Indonesian-born Australian Tiffany Welford. In August, she won the Hechingen, Germany with compatriot Romana Tedjakusuma and yet another $25k title, this time in Augusta, Georgia, in October, again with Tedjakusuma. In the first tournament she played in 2009, the $25k Balikpapan event in Indonesia, she and Tedjakusuma won the doubles competition. In May 2009, she won consecutive $25k events in Goyang and then Gimhae, both in the Korean Republic, and again, both with Tedjakusuma.

Basuki played in the doubles at the 2010 Australian Open, partnering Kimiko Date-Krumm, losing in the first round to Sania Mirza and Virginia Ruano Pascual.

In 2011, Basuki played in three WTA and five ITF tournaments. She successfully represented Indonesia in the Fed Cup, winning four matches with partner Jessy Rompies to see Indonesia back into the Asia/Oceania Group I. Her most recent appearance in a WTA Tour event was in September 2011 at the Guangzhou International Open, in which she and partner Lu Jingjing reached the quarterfinals.

As of December 2012, her most recent appearance in a professional tournament was in the $25k event in Phuket in March 2012. She and partner Kao Shao-yuan reached the quarterfinals of the doubles competition. In 2013, she retired from the tour to pursue a career as a politician.

In the 2014 Indonesian parliamentary election, she stood for a seat in the DPR with the National Mandate Party (PAN) from Central Java I electoral district. She was elected and sat on Commission X focusing on education, sports, and history. In the 2019 election, Basuki again ran as a legislative candidate in the same electoral district. However, the party did not win enough votes and therefore she lost her seat in the parliament.

WTA Sportsmanship Award, 1996 and 1998
Female Rookie of the Year 1991, TENNIS Magazine
Indonesian Athlete of the Year 1991
Nominated as Most Impressive Newcomer 1991, WTA Tour
Special Award from President Soeharto of Indonesia for outstanding contribution to sports, 1991

She married her coach and mixed-doubles partner Hary Suharyadi, with whom she won gold at the 1990 Asian Games, on 31 January 1994. On 23 September 1999, she gave birth to her first child. She returned to playing on the tour the following year.

Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0)
Tier I (3)
Tier II (4)
Tier III (5)
Tier IV & V (13)

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 1991	Pattaya Open, Thailand	Hard	Naoko Sawamatsu	6–2, 6–2
Win	2–0	Apr 1992	Malaysia Open	Hard	Andrea Strnadová	6–3, 6–0
Win	3–0	Apr 1993	Pattaya Open, Thailand	Hard	Marianne Werdel	6–3, 6–1
Win	4–0	May 1993	Indonesian Open	Hard	Ann Grossman	6–4, 6–4
Win	5–0	Feb 1994	China Open	Hard (i)	Kyōko Nagatsuka	6–4, 6–2
Win	6–0	May 1994	Indonesian Open	Hard	Florencia Labat	6–4, 3–6, 7–6
Loss	6–1	Apr 1996	Indonesian Open	Hard	Linda Wild	w/o
Loss	6–2	Jun 1997	Birmingham Classic, UK	Grass	Nathalie Tauziat	6–2, 2–6, 2–6

Result	W/L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 1991	VS Brentwood, United States	Hard (i)	Caroline Vis	Sandy Collins Elna Reinach	7–5, 4–6, 6–7
Loss	0–2	Sep 1992	Tokyo Championships, Japan	Hard	Nana Miyagi	Mary Joe Fernández Robin White	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Oct 1993	Sapporo Open, Japan	Carpet (i)	Nana Miyagi	Yone Kamio Naoko Kijimuta	6–4, 6–2
Win	2–2	Oct 1993	Taiwan Open	Hard	Nana Miyagi	Jo-Anne Faull Kristine Kunce	6–4, 6–2
Loss	2–3	Apr 1994	Japan Open	Hard	Nana Miyagi	Mami Donoshiro Ai Sugiyama	4–6, 1–6
Loss	2–4	Apr 1994	Pattaya Open, Thailand	Hard	Nana Miyagi	Patty Fendick Meredith McGrath	6–7, 6–3, 3–6
Win	3–4	Nov 1994	Surabaya Classic, Indonesia	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Kyōko Nagatsuka Ai Sugiyama	w/o
Win	4–4	Jan 1996	Hobart International, Australia	Hard	Kyōko Nagatsuka	Kerry-Anne Guse Park Sung-hee	7–6, 6–3
Win	5–4	May 1996	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	Clay	Nicole Bradtke	Marianne Werdel-Witmeyer Tami Whitlinger-Jones	5–7, 6–4, 6–4
Win	6–4	Aug 1997	LA Tennis Championships, United States	Hard	Caroline Vis	Larisa Savchenko-Neiland Helena Suková	7–6, 6–3
Win	7–4	Aug 1997	Canadian Open	Hard	Caroline Vis	Nicole Arendt Manon Bollegraf	3–6, 7–5, 6–4
Loss	7–5	Sep 1997	Sparkassen Cup Leipzig, Germany	Carpet (i)	Helena Suková	Martina Hingis Jana Novotná	2–6, 2–6
Loss	7–6	Nov 1997	Kremlin Cup, Russia	Carpet (i)	Caroline Vis	Arantxa Sánchez Vicario Natasha Zvereva	3–5 def.
Loss	7–7	May 1998	Internationaux de Strasbourg, France	Clay	Caroline Vis	Alexandra Fusai Nathalie Tauziat	4–6, 3–6
Loss	7–8	Aug 1998	Canadian Open	Hard	Caroline Vis	Martina Hingis Jana Novotná	3–6, 4–6
Win	8–8	Nov 2000	Pattaya Open, Thailand	Hard	Caroline Vis	Tina Križan Katarina Srebotnik	6–3, 6–3
Win	9–8	Feb 2001	Dubai Championships, U.A.E.	Hard	Caroline Vis	Åsa Carlsson Karina Habšudová	6–0, 4–6, 6–2

Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1.	6 August 1989	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	7–6(5), 1–6, 6–4
Win	2.	24 September 1989	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Tang Min	6–3, 6–3
Win	3.	21 January 1990	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Judith Warringa	6–2, 6–4
Win	4.	12 August 1990	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	5–7, 6–4, 6–3
Win	5.	10 February 1991	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Misumi Miyauchi	6–2, 6–2

Result	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1.	6 July 1986	ITF Brindisi, Italy	Clay	Suzanna Wibowo	Li Xinyi Zhong Ni	6–4, 4–6, 6–2
Win	2.	27 October 1986	ITF Saga, Japan	Grass	Suzanna Wibowo	Marianne van der Torre Themis Zambrzycki	6–2, 6–3
Win	3.	10 November 1986	ITF Matsuyama, Japan	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Belinda Cordwell Wendy Wood	0–6, 6–4, 6–2
Win	4.	24 November 1986	ITF Kyoto, Japan	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Kazuko Ito Junko Kimura	6–3, 6–3
Win	5.	12 July 1987	ITF Paliano, Italy	Clay	Suzanna Wibowo	Laura Lapi Barbara Romanò	6–4, 2–6, 6–0
Win	6.	19 July 1987	ITF Subiaco, Italy	Clay	Suzanna Wibowo	Ilonka Leyten Brigette Pardoel	7–5, 7–5
Win	7.	25 October 1987	ITF Ibaraki, Japan	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Alison Scott Stephanie Savides	6–2, 4–6, 6–0
Win	8.	1 November 1987	ITF Matsuyama, Japan	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Jennifer Fuchs Jill Smoller	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Loss	1.	12 June 1988	ITF Modena, Italy	Clay	Ei Iida	Eugenia Maniokova Viktoria Milvidskaia	3–6, 6–4, 0–6
Loss	2.	19 June 1988	ITF Salerno, Italy	Clay	Anne Aallonen	Eugenia Maniokova Viktoria Milvidskaia	6–1, 5–7, 4–6
Loss	3.	26 June 1988	ITF Arezzo, Italy	Clay	Titia Wilmink	Eugenia Maniokova Viktoria Milvidskaia	6–0, 5–7, 1–6
Loss	4.	3 July 1988	ITF Brindisi, Italy	Clay	Ei Iida	Frédérique Martin Virginie Paquet	7–5, 2–6, 2–6
Win	9.	16 October 1988	ITF Chiba, Japan	Hard	Ei Iida	Naoko Sato Maya Kidowaki	6–2, 7–6
Win	10.	11 June 1989	ITF Milan, Italy	Clay	Suzanna Wibowo	Claudine Toleafoa Ruth Seeman	5–7, 6–4, 6–2
Win	11.	6 August 1989	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Patricia Budiono Lukky Tedjamukti	4–6, 6–0, 6–3
Win	12.	12 November 1989	ITF Nuriootpa, Australia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Justine Hodder Kelli-Ann Johnston	6–3, 6–4
Win	13.	21 January 1990	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Alexandra Niepel Caroline Billingham	w/o
Loss	5.	15 April 1990	ITF Bari, Italy	Clay	Suzanna Wibowo	Agnese Blumberga Barbara Rittner	4–6, 6–4, 2–6
Loss	6.	10 June 1990	ITF Mantua, Italy	Clay	Suzanna Wibowo	Ivana Jankovská Eva Melicharová	3–6, 5–7
Win	14.	12 August 1990	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Irawati Moerid Justi Kuswara	7–5, 6–3
Win	15.	28 October 1990	ITF Nagasaki, Japan	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Kerry-Anne Guse Kristine Kunce	6–2, 7–6(8)
Win	16.	4 November 1990	ITF Saga, Japan	Grass	Suzanna Wibowo	Kerry-Anne Guse Kristine Kunce	6–3, 6–2
Win	17.	18 November 1990	ITF Nuriootpa, Australia	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Ingelise Driehuis Louise Pleming	7–6, 6–1
Win	18.	20 February 2000	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Irawati Iskandar	Choi Young-ja Kim Eun-sook	7–5, 7–5
Win	19.	27 February 2000	ITF Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	Irawati Iskandar Wukirasih Sawondari	6–4, 6–2
Win	20.	31 May 2008	ITF Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Tiffany Welford	Elina Gasanova Lavinia Tananta	2–6, 7–6(7), [10–4]
Win	21.	10 August 2008	ITF Hechingen, Germany	Clay	Romana Tedjakusuma	Carmen Klaschka Darija Jurak	2–6, 6–2, [10–6]
Loss	7.	19 October 2008	ITF Lawrenceville, United States	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Julie Ditty Carly Gullickson	6–3, 4–6, [10–12]
Win	22.	25 October 2008	ITF Augusta, United States	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Mailen Auroux Roxane Vaisemberg	6–3, 4–6, [10–5]
Win	23.	4 May 2009	ITF Balikpapan, Indonesia	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Zhang Ling Emily Webley-Smith	6–3, 6–3
Win	24.	31 May 2009	ITF Goyang, South Korea	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Sun Shengnan Lu Jingjing	6–7(5), 6–3, [10–8]
Win	25.	2 June 2009	ITF Gimhae, South Korea	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Liang Chen Sun Shengnan	7–5, 6–1
Loss	8.	28 September 2009	ITF Hamanako, Japan	Carpet	Hwang I-hsuan	Carly Gullickson Nicole Kriz	6–4, 6–7, [5–10]
Loss	9.	2 November 2009	ITF Taipei, Taiwan	Hard (i)	Riza Zalameda	Chan Yung-jan Chuang Chia-jung	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Loss	10.	2 April 2010	ITF Monzón, Spain	Hard	Riza Zalameda	Alexandra Dulgheru Tamarine Tanasugarn	2–6, 0–6
Loss	11.	5 June 2010	ITF Bukhara, Uzbekistan	Hard	Jessy Rompies	Tatia Mikadze Sofia Shapatava	3–6, 3–6

Basuki made her debut in multi-sport event at the 1985 SEA Games, she won the women's singles bronze medal.

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Bronze	December 1985	SEA Games, Bangkok	Hard	Sakolwan Kacharoen
Gold	September 1987	SEA Games, Jakarta	Hard	Suzanna Anggarkusuma
Gold	August 1989	SEA Games, Kuala Lumpur	Hard	Suzanna Anggarkusuma
Bronze	October 1994	Asian Games, Hiroshima	Hard	Kimiko Date	0–6, 7–5, 0–6
Gold	December 1998	Asian Games, Bangkok	Hard	Tamarine Tanasugarn	6–4, 6–2

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Gold	October 1986	Asian Games, Seoul	Hard	Suzanna Anggarkusuma	Lee Jeong-soon Kim Il-soon
Gold	September 1987	SEA Games, Jakarta	Hard	Suzanna Anggarkusuma	Dyan Castillejo Nina Castillejo
Silver	August 1989	SEA Games, Kuala Lumpur	Hard	Suzanna Anggarkusuma	Waya Walalangi Lukky Tedjamukti
Gold	November 1990	Asian Games, Beijing	Hard	Suzanna Wibowo	Lee Jeong-myung Kim Il-soon
Gold	December 1995	SEA Games, Chiang Mai	Hard	Romana Tedjakusuma	Tamarine Tanasugarn Suvimol Duangchan
Gold	September 2001	SEA Games, Kuala Lumpur	Hard	Wynne Prakusya	Romana Tedjakusuma Angelique Widjaja	6–2, 6–1

Result	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Gold	November 1990	Asian Games, Beijing	Hard	Hary Suharyadi	Yoo Jin-sun Kim Il-soon
Gold	December 1995	SEA Games, Chiang Mai	Hard	Sulistyo Wibowo	Bonit Wiryawan Romana Tedjakusuma
Silver	September 2001	SEA Games, Kuala Lumpur	Hard	Suwandi	Bonit Wiryawan Angelique Widjaja	w/o

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6	Column 7	Column 8	Column 9	Column 10
W	F	SF	QF	#R	RR	Q#	DNQ	A	NH

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.
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.

Tournament	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	Win–loss
Australian Open	A	A	A	1R	1R	1R	2R	1–4
French Open	A	QF	2R	2R	2R	A	A	6–4
Wimbledon	3R	1R	1R	QF	1R	A	A	5–5
US Open	1R	1R	1R	2R	1R	A	A	1–5
Win–loss	2–2	3–3	1–3	5–4	1–4	0–1	1–1	13–18

Year	Earnings (US$)	Money list rank
1986	$2,950
1987	$3,775
1988	$7,772
1989	$6,600
1990	$12,429
1991	$92,631	55
1992	$111,748	50
1993	$168,118	38
1994	$141,290 #
1995	$137,235
1996	$254,784	28
1997	$385,824	19
1998	Unknown	31
1999	$15,134 #
2000	$43,509 #
2001	$30,710
2003	$437
2004	$50 Archived 15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine	2293
2008	$3,248 Archived 12 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine	852
Career*	$1,648,297 Archived 19 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine	118 Archived 19 May 2022 at the Wayback Machine

as of 12 April 2009

does not include mixed-doubles earnings (which are included in the career total)

Yayuk Basuki at the Women's Tennis Association
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Yayuk Basuki at Wimbledon
Yayuk Basuki at ESPN.com
Yayuk Basuki at Olympedia
Yayuk Basuki at Olympics.com
Basuki gets to say goodbye – Article on CNN/SI.com

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