BACKHANDED:Italy’s Flavia Pennetta bounced back from her initial defeat to claim victory over Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska with her dominant backhand
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 28, 2015
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with reuters, SINGAPORE
Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan yesterday crushed the second seeds to win
Italy’s Flavia Pennetta returns to Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska in their WTA Finals singles round robin-match at the Singapore Indoor Stadium yesterday. Photo: AFP
their second straight round-robin match at the WTA Finals in Singapore and stand on the verge of a spot in Saturday’s semi-finals.
The third-seeded Taiwanese sisters took just 71 minutes to complete a crushing 6-2, 6-2 victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US and Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic to go top of the White Group.
The Chan sisters saved all three break points they faced and converted four of seven, winning 60 of the 106 points contested to maintain a 100 percent record at the season-ending tournament.
“Got our 2nd win here in the White Group, happy we got the advantage with 2-0, but still need to stay focus with every single match,” Chan Yung-jan said on Facebook. [FULL STORY]
