The Most Famous
TENNIS PLAYERS from Indonesia
This page contains a list of the greatest Indonesian Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,569 Tennis Players, 3 of which were born in Indonesia. This makes Indonesia the birth place of the 64th most number of Tennis Players behind Paraguay, and Kazakhstan.
Top 4
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indonesian Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Indonesian Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Yayuk Basuki (b. 1970)
With an HPI of 46.16, Yayuk Basuki is the most famous Indonesian Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
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.
2. Angelique Widjaja (b. 1984)
With an HPI of 39.36, Angelique Widjaja is the 2nd most famous Indonesian Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Angelique Widjaja (Chinese: 黄依林; pinyin: Huang Yīlín; born 12 December 1984) is an Indonesian former professional tennis player. She won the junior championships at Wimbledon in 2001, defeating Dinara Safina, and the 2002 junior French Open defeating Ashley Harkleroad. 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.
3. Wynne Prakusya (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 35.07, Wynne Prakusya is the 3rd most famous Indonesian Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Wynne Prakusya (born 26 April 1981) is a former tennis player from Indonesia. Her first appearance in a professional tournament occurred in 1996, when she was 14 years old. She formally went professional in 1998. Over her career, she has won two WTA doubles titles, nine ITF singles titles and 17 ITF doubles titles. As a junior, her highest achievements includes reaching the 1998 Australian Open junior finals and the 1998 Wimbledon junior quarterfinals. Her first appearance at a WTA event took place in September 1997 at the Wismilak International in Surabaya. The first time she won a match in the WTA Tour was in the 1999 Wismilak International in Kuala Lumpur. In 2000, Prakusya began to attempt qualification for the main draws of major tournaments. She also began to appear primarily at WTA rather than ITF events. Her first win in the main draw of a major came in the 2001 Australian Open, in which she and partner Janet Lee reached round two in the women's doubles. Her first tournament win on the WTA Tour was in the doubles draw of the Stanford Classic in 2001, again with partner Janet Lee. She and Lee also qualified for the WTA Tour Championships in Los Angeles in 2002. She represented Indonesia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, this time partnered by Angelique Widjaja. Prakusya successfully represented Indonesia at the 2002 Asian Games, the 2005 SEA Games and the 2007 SEA Games, winning seven medals in total. She was part of the Indonesia Fed Cup team in every year from 1996 to 2005. She was part of the 2004 team which saw Indonesia return to the Fed Cup World Group: in that year, Prakusya won 11 of her 12 Fed Cup matches. She has been inactive on the professional tennis circuit since 2007.
4. Aldila Sutjiadi (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 33.52, Aldila Sutjiadi is the 4th most famous Indonesian Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Aldila Sutjiadi (born 2 May 1995) is an Indonesian professional tennis player who specializes in doubles. She has career-high rankings of world No. 26 in doubles, achieved on 23 October 2023, and No. 344 in singles, achieved on 24 May 2021. Sutjiadi has won six doubles titles on the WTA Tour and five doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as one singles title and fifteen doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. She is currently the highest-ranked Indonesian tennis player in doubles by the WTA. At the 2018 Asian Games, Sutjiadi and Christopher Rungkat earned Indonesia its first tennis medal in 16 years. Seeded 11th in the mixed doubles competition, Sutjiadi/Rungkat defeated fifth seed Sonchat Ratiwatana/Luksika Kumkhum of Thailand in the final. By winning her maiden doubles title at the 2022 Copa Colsanitas alongside Astra Sharma, Sutjiadi became the first Indonesian tennis player to win a title on the WTA Tour since Angelique Widjaja won her last doubles title at the 2003 Wismilak International in Bali.
People
Pantheon has 4 people classified as Indonesian tennis players born between 1970 and 1995. Of these 4, 4 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indonesian tennis players include Yayuk Basuki, Angelique Widjaja, and Wynne Prakusya. As of April 2024, 1 new Indonesian tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Wynne Prakusya.
Living Indonesian Tennis Players
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Yayuk Basuki
1970 - Present
HPI: 46.16
Angelique Widjaja
1984 - Present
HPI: 39.36
Wynne Prakusya
1981 - Present
HPI: 35.07
Aldila Sutjiadi
1995 - Present
HPI: 33.52
