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With a French Junior Open title, Wimbledon winner Angelique Widjaja has become Indonesia's newest sports sensation. Can the 17-year-old achieve greater glories?

June 18, 2002

Tennis player Angelique Widjaja may be too powerful to play in the juniors. The 17-year-old's swing was able to net two junior titles in two different grand slams. After achieving the title in Wimbledon last year, she began to shine again. On June 2, she seized the coveted title: French Open Junior Champion.

Her extraordinary achievement at Roland Garros—the only French title ever won by an Asian woman—sent Widjaja into the No 2

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