TOUGH ASSIGNMENT: World No. 61 Hsieh Su-wei next faces Czech world No. 6 Karolina Pliskova, who said she would be wary of the Taiwanese No. 1’s ‘strange game’
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 24, 2018
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with Reuters
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei on Thursday upset the 32nd seed in the second round of the
Romania’s Simona Halep returns to Oceane Dodin of France in their Miami Open second-round women’s singles match in Key Biscayne, Florida, on Thursday. Photo: AFP
women’s singles at the Miami Open, while world No. 1 Simona Halep survived a scare from Oceane Dodin.
World No. 61 Hsieh defeated Sorana Cirstea 7-5, 6-2 in 1 hour, 22 minutes in Florida to improve her career record against the Romanian to 2-0 after winning their only previous meeting on the grass courts in Eastbourne, England, last year.
The Taiwanese saved three of six break points and converted six of 11, winning 73 of the 131 points contested to set up a third-round clash with fifth seed Karolina Pliskova, who defeated Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 7-5, her first victory in four meetings with the Russian.
“I’ve never played Hsieh, but she has a very strange game; I’ve watched her a few times on TV, and with her drop shots and slices, it’s clear she’s trying to mix things up a lot,” Pliskova told the WTA Web site of her next opponent. [FULL STORY]
