Taipei Times
Date: Sep 26, 2019
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, WUHAN, China
The Chan sisters yesterday eased into the quarter-finals of the doubles at the Wuhan Open, while
Romania’s Simona Halep returns to Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina in their Wuhan Open third-round match in Wuhan, China, yesterday.
Photo: AFP
Sixth seeds Chan Hao-ching and Latisha Chan took just 62 minutes to complete a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 victory over Anna Blinkova of Russia and Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic.
The Taiwanese duo failed to save the single break point they faced, but converted four of eight, winning 80 percent of points on their first serve and 70 percent on the second to advance to a quarter-final against fourth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands, who defeated Sofia Kenin of the US and Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-4, 3-6, 12-10.
The Taiwanese sisters defeated Groenefeld and Schuurs on the way to two of their four titles this season — in the final in Doha and the round-of-16 in Eastbourne, England — but have also suffered two defeats — the semi-finals in Rome and the round-of-16 in Birmingham, England.
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