Taipei Times
Date: May 11, 2018
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, MADRID
Latisha Chan on Wednesday advanced to the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at
Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US, second right, and Taiwan’s Latisha Chan, right, pose for a selfie with the crowd after their second-round women’s doubles match at the Mutua Madrid Open in Spain on Wednesday. Photo: screen grab from Facebook
the Mutua Madrid Open, but fellow Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei crashed out to the top seeds in the second round.
Fifth seeds Chan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated unseeded Julia Goerges of Germany and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) in 1 hour, 24 minutes at La Caja Magica in the Spanish capital.
The Taiwanese-American duo saved three of six break points and converted four of eight, winning 71 of the 131 points contested, despite their opponents firing down five aces to advance to a quarter-final against Czech second seeds Andrea Sestini Hlavackova, Chan’s partner at the beginning of the season, and Barbora Strycova.
Hsieh and Daria Gavrilova of Australia fell to a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Russian top seeds Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina in 1 hour, 15 minutes. [FULL STORY]
