Taipei Times
Date: Sep 30, 2017
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter
Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan yesterday advanced to the doubles final at the Wuhan Open,
Taiwan’s Chan Yung-jan hits a return yesterday, as she and Switzerland’s Martina Hingis played their women’s doubles semi-final against India’s Sania Mirza and China’s Peng Shuai at the WTA Wuhan Open tennis tournament in China. Photo: AFP
while unseeded Ashleigh Barty upset eighth seed Jelena Ostapenko to reach the singles final.
Top seeds Chan and Martina Hingis won a hard-fought semi-final against third seeds Sania Mirza of India and Peng Shuai of China 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 in 1 hour, 48 minutes on Center Court at the Optics Valley International Tennis Center in Wuhan, China.
The Taiwanese-Swiss duo saved seven of 12 break points and converted six of 13, winning 73 of the 138 points contested to advance to today’s final against Shuko Aoyama of Japan and Yang Zhaoxuan of China after they were handed a walkover when Australian fourth seeds Barty and Casey Dellacqua pulled out of the second semi-final, with Barty citing fatigue.
Aoyama and Yang progressed through the quarter-finals on Thursday when Russian second seeds Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova retired in the first set.
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