THE GAME THAT NEVER ENDS:Shelby Rogers took 3 hours and 33 minutes to defeat Daria Gavrilova, setting the record for the longest women’s singles match

Taipei Times
Date: Sep 02, 2017
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, NEW YORK

The Chan sisters, fresh from their gold-medal winning performance at the Taipei Summer Universiade on Tuesday, got their US Open campaigns off to a winning start on Thursday at Flushing Meadows in New York.

Elder sister Chan Yung-jan and Nenad Zimonjic took 59 minutes to see off Spanish duo Arantxa Parra Santonja and Marc Lopez 6-2, 7-6 (7/2) in the first round of the mixed doubles on Court 7.

The Taiwanese-Serbian pairing saved two of four break points and converted four of five, winning 66 of the 109 points contested to advance to the second round.

Younger sister Chan Hao-ching and Michael Venus of New Zealand cruised into the second round of the mixed doubles with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over US duo Amanda Anisimova and Christian Harrison in just 53 minutes on Court 11.    [FULL  STORY]