Taipei Times
Date: Sep 27, 2019
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, WUHAN, China
The Chan sisters’ bid for a spot in the season-ending WTA Finals suffered a setback yesterday when
Ashleigh Barty returns to Petra Martic during their women’s singles quarter-final at the Wuhan Open in China yesterday.
Photo: AFP
Chan Hao-ching and Latisha Chan, who claimed their fourth title of the season in Osaka, Japan, last week, fell to a 6-1, 6-1 defeat to fourth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Demi Schuurs in just 55 minutes on the hard courts in China.
The German-Dutch duo saved two of the three break points they faced and converted six of 11 to advance to the semi-finals and boost their chance of claiming a spot at the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, China, next month.
Groenefeld and Schuurs are currently eighth in the “Race to Shenzhen” rankings with 3,560 points, while the Chan sisters are fifth on 4,145. [FULL STORY]
