‘SO FAR, SO GOOD’:Wimbledon champions Serena Williams and Andy Murray, as well as Connecticut Open winner Agnieszka Radwanska, made it through to the third round
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 03, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, NEW YORK
The Chan sisters eased into the second round of the women’s doubles at the US Open on Thursday,
Tennis players Chan Yung-jan, left, and Chan Hao-ching, right, pose for a photograph with Taiwanese fans after winning their US Open first-round doubles match against China’s Han Xinyun and Zhang Kai-lin in New York yesterday. Photo courtesy of Liu Hsueh-chen
before elder sister Chan Yung-jan returned to the hard courts at Flushing Meadows in the mixed doubles to battle into the second round and keep the Taiwanese challenge on track at the final Grand Slam of the year.
Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan took just 72 minutes to see off Chinese duo Han Xinyun and Zhang Kai-lin in the first round of the women’s doubles, converting five of nine break points as their opponents served up eight double faults in a 6-2, 6-2 victory in which they won 63 of the 108 points contested.
The Taiwanese sisters advanced to a potential second-round banana skin against unseeded Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia and Sabine Lisicki of Germany.
Chan Yung-jan, competing in her 15th US Open, then returned on Court 8 alongside Nenad Zimonjic and survived a second-set fightback against US duo Melanie Oudin and Mitchell Krueger to advance to the second round of the mixed doubles 6-0, 6-7 (4/7), 10-4 in 72 minutes.
The Taiwanese-Serbian pairing saved three of five break points and converted five of nine, winning 70 of the 122 points contested to set up a second-round clash with either eighth seeds Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland or Kudryavtseva and Scott Lipsky of the US. [FULL STORY]
