Taipei Times
Date: Mar 10, 2018
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter
The reunited Chan sisters on Thursday advanced to the second round of the doubles at
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei returns to Germany’s Carina Witthoeft in their BNP Paribas Open women’s singles first-round match in Indian Wells, California, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE
the BNP Paribas Open, while fellow Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei set up a second-round singles clash with Spanish 27th seed Carla Suarez Navarro when her German opponent, Carina Witthoeft, retired with an injury.
The second-seeded Chan sisters, Hao-ching and Latisha, took just 65 minutes to see off the challenge of Latvian top-20 singles specialists Jelena Ostapenko and Anastasija Sevastova 6-2, 6-3 at Indian Wells in California.
The Taiwanese duo saved five of seven break points and converted five of 13, winning 56 of the 98 points contested.
“Today is our first match [together] after a long time, but I think it was a great match,” Latisha Chan told the WTA Web site.
“It was pretty aggressive and strong, and then we were strong when we had to [be]. There were quite a few deuces and I’m glad that we made it at the end,” she [FULL STORY]
