TOPPED OUT:World No. 62 Lu Yen-hsun of Taiwan was eliminated from the Topshelf Open, losing to France’s Adrian Mannarino in 1 hour and 18 minutes
Taipei Times
Date: Jun 11, 2015
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, NOTTINGHAM, England
Chuang Chia-jung cruised into the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at the Aegon Open in
France’s Nicolas Mahut returns to Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt in their first-round match at the Topshelf Open in s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on Tuesday. Photo: EPA
Nottingham, England, on Tuesday, while fellow Taiwanese Chan Chin-wei had to battle through a super tiebreak to advance.
Chuang and Olga Savchuk defeated Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Alicja Rosolska of Poland 6-3, 6-1 in just 53 minutes at the Nottingham Tennis Centre.
The Taiwanese-Ukrainian duo saved three of four break-point chances and converted five of nine in winning 56 of the 92 points contested to set up a quarter-final against either second-seeded cross-strait pairing Chan Yung-jan and Zheng Jie or Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Darija Jurak of Croatia, who were due to play their first-round match late yesterday. [FULL STORY]
