POSSIBLY YOUNGEST: National top tennis ace, Aslina Chua may possibly be the youngest to compete in this year’s BMW Malaysian Open championship to be held at Royal Selangor Golf Club from Feb 25 to Mar 3. So far the 17-year-old is the only amateur confirmed representing Malaysia in the US$235,000 professional event.
KUCHING: Given the choice, national tennis ace Aslina Chua is looking forward to play against world No.10 Caroline Wozniacki or former No.1 Jelena Jakovic in the main draw of this year’s BMW Malaysia Open championship which starts on Feb 25.
“I don’t mind playing with Caroline…it will be the match of a lifetime,” said the Kuching lass on whom she would love to meet in the opening match of the US$235,000 WTA event.
Aslina told The Borneo Post yesterday that she had just turned 17 last month and is set to be the youngest among the 32 participating players including defending champion, Hsieh Su-wei from Taiwan.
Her slot in the main draw was based on the wild card entry given to Malaysia as the hosting country.
She had also won last year’s BMW Malaysia’s National Circuit Women’s Open championship.
“I feel very excited about it and will definitely enjoy every minute of the game…it will be the best ever,” said Aslina as she expressed the excitement of the possible match against world class players.
She had given the Chinese New Year holidays the skip after returning from Kazakhstan only recently because of the Federation Cup which Malaysia took part a few days ago.
“I missed the celebration because of the Fed Cup and returned only on the second day of the Chinese New Year,” said the enthusiastic top spinner who said Malaysia played pretty decent tennis in the recent event even though losing the decider.
According to her, she is also looking forward to completing her home-school studies this year in order to enter a college in the USA probably early 2014.
At the rate she is going, Aslina would be getting the best of both worlds as she juggles to become a teenage world class tennis ace and the book worm aiming to go for the Big Apple.