Taipei Times
Date: Sep 27, 2017
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter
Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan and Martina Hingis of Switzerland cruised into the quarter-

Chan Yung-jan, front, and Martina Hingis walk past some fans at the Wuhan Open in China yesterday. Photo: screen grab from Facebook
finals of the doubles at the Wuhan Open yesterday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei gave top seed Kristyna Pliskova a fright in the first round of the singles at the Tashkent Open.
Chan and Hingis took just 57 minutes to complete a 6-1, 6-2 second-round victory over Raquel Atawo of the US and Darija Jurak of Croatia.
The top seeds saved two of three break points and converted five of seven, winning 53 of the 86 points contested to advance to the quarter-finals
It was not such a good day for Chan Yung-jan’s younger sister, Chan Hao-ching, after she and Zhang Shuai of China fell to a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Makoto Ninomiya of Japan and Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic in the first round.
Ninomiya and Voracova saved one of the two break points they faced and converted three of 11 to advance to a second-round clash with sixth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic, with the winners due to face Chan Yung-jan and Hingis in the quarter-finals. [FULL STORY]