India score second win
in Jr. Fed Cup qualifier

India beat Indonesia to win their second match in the Asia-Oceania girls' qualifying tournament for the junior Federation Cup tennis event, at the Gelora Senayam tennis stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Wednesday.

Seeded fourth in the tournament, India registered a 3-0 victory in a Group 3 match.

Earlier, on Tuesday, they had defeated The Philippines by an identical margin.

India No. 2 Ankita Bhambri staged a fine rally to beat Septi Nindya Yutami 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, while Sania Mirza easily defeated Sandy Gumulya 6-1, 6-3.

Bhambri then teamed up with Sania Mirza in the doubles to beat Gumulya / Yutami 6-3, 7-5 and completed the sweep.

In another Group 3 match, Uzbekistan beat The Philippines 3-0.

India will face Uzbekistan in their last match.

In Group 1, top seeds Australia defeated China Hong Kong 3-0.

In Group 2, Korea defeated Sri Lanka 3-0 and Thailand beat Japan 2-1.

Chinese Taipei stunned second seeds China 2-1 in a Group 4 match.

The 2002 Junior Federation Cup finals will take place in La Baule, France, from September 9.

Four teams will qualify from the Asia-Oceania group for the finals. France, as host nation, are automatic qualifiers.

The international team competition for players aged 16 and under was launched by the ITF in 1985 as the "World Youth Cup" between 1988 and 2001.

This year the ITF re-branded the boys' competition as "Junior Davis Cup". The girls' competition was also changed to "Junior Fed Cup".