Aldila Sutjiadi (born 2 May 1995) is an Indonesian professional

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player. Sutjiadi has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 344 in singles achieved on 24 May 2021 and No. 46 in doubles achieved on 5 December 2022. She has won one doubles title on the

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and two doubles titles on the

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. At the

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, Sutjiadi and

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earned Indonesia its first tennis medal in 16 years. Seeded 11th in the mixed doubles competition, Sutjiadi/Rungkat defeated fifth seed

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of Thailand in the final. By winning her maiden WTA doubles title at the

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alongside

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, Sutjiadi became the first Indonesian tennis player to win a title on the WTA main circuit since

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won her last WTA doubles title at the 2003 Wismilak International tournament in Bali.

Career

Sutjiadi made her debut as a junior player in 2008, aged 13. Highlights of her junior career include winning the singles and doubles competition at the 2010 Indonesia International Junior Championships as well as reaching the doubles semifinals of the 2012 Australian Open Junior Championships. In 2010, aged 15, Sutjiadi turned professional at an ITF tournament in Jakarta. At 17, she won the gold medal in both singles and doubles at the 2012 Indonesian National Sports Week and made her debut for the

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the following year in 2013. At the

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, Sutjiadi won bronze medals in women's doubles partnered with

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as well as in the women's team event alongside Rompies,

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, and

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. In 2017, Sutjiadi graduated from the

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. As a varsity athlete playing for the

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, Sutjiadi was named doubles All-American in 2016 and 2017, won Kentucky’s first-ever national championship in doubles at the ITA National Indoors Championship alongside Mami Adachi in 2016, and was nominated for the 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year award. At the

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, competing alongside

in the mixed doubles competition, Sutjiadi won a gold medal for Indonesia by defeating

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pair

. The pair also won the mixed doubles gold medal for Indonesia at the

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by defeating Ratiwatana who paired up with

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. Sutjiadi also won gold medal in the singles competition by defeating Savanna Lý Nguyễn from

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in the grand final. Sutjiadi/Rungkat defended their gold medal at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in

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by defeating yet another Thai pair

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in the final. In July 2021, Sutjiadi reached her first WTA 125 tournament final at Charleston Pro partnering

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, but lost to Liang En-shuo/

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in three sets. In November 2021, partnering

Peangtarn Plipuech Peangtarn "Earth" Plipuech ( th, เพียงธาร ผลิพืช; born 15 November 1992) is a Thai tennis player. Plipuech has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 175, achieved on 31 July 2017. ...

, Sutjiadi again made the final of a WTA 125 tournament at

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, this time losing to

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. Thanks to her improved ranking, Sutjiadi began to play more on the main

. In January 2022, she lost in the first qualifying round of Adelaide International 2, a WTA 250 tournament, against

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and in the first round of the doubles competition partnering Plipuech. Sutjiadi/Plipuech then received a wildcard to the doubles competition of the

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. They lost to No. 5 seed Alexa Guarachi/

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6–4, 6–2 in the opening round. Sutjiadi then competed alongside

in the doubles competition of the

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. They defeated No. 2 seed

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6–4, 7–5 in the quarterfinals before scoring a comeback victory against

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4–6, 7–5, 0–6in the semifinal. In the final, Sutjiadi/Sharma defeated

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4–6, 6–4, 1–9 This was Sutjiadi's first WTA Tour title as well as the first title on the main tour for Indonesian tennis players since

won the doubles trophy alongside

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at the 2003 Wismilak International tournament in September 2003. After the tournament, Sutjiadi entered the top 100 ranking for the first time at No. 86. The following month, Sutjiadi partnered with

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to lift the trophy at the 100K

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by defeating Sophie Chang/ Angela Kulikov 6–1, 6–4 in the final. At the

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, Sutjiadi began a new partnership with Japanese player Miyu Kato. They defeated

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7–6(2), 2–6, 6–2 in the first round, which marks Sutjiadi's first ever match win at a major. In the second round, they fell to No. 4 seed

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6–3, 6–4. Sutjiadi continued her partnership with Kato at the

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where they lost to

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7–6(3), 5–7, 7–6(12) in the first round. They then lost at the quarterfinal of the

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, the semifinal of the 2022 Ladies Open Lausanne to

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, and the final of the

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to Chang/Kulikov.

Awards and nominations

Grand Slam doubles performance timeline

WTA career finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

WTA 125K finals

Doubles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runner-ups)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)

Doubles: 24 (15 titles, 9 runner–ups)

ITF Junior finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

Doubles: 12 (5 titles, 7 runner-ups)

National representation

Singles: 2 (1 gold, 1 silver)

Doubles: 1 (bronze)

Mixed doubles: 3 (3 gold)

Notes

References

External links

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