Hsieh and Pennetta dig deep to make quarters

VICTORY RESUMED:Top seed Novak Djokovic survived a barrage of aces and winners from Kevin Anderson after their match restarted to proceed to the semi-finals

Taipei Times
Date: Jul 08, 2015
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter, with AFP and AP, LONDON

Seventh seeds Hsieh Su-wei and Flavia Pennetta had to dig themselves out of a hole

Novak Djokovic returns to Kevin Anderson in their men’s singles match at Wimbledon in London yesterday.  Photo: AP

Novak Djokovic returns to Kevin Anderson in their men’s singles match at Wimbledon in London yesterday. Photo: AP

to reach the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at Wimbledon on Monday.

After losing the first set of their third-round match against Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Coco Vandeweghe of the US, the Taiwanese-American duo bounced back to take the second to love and level the match.

However, the seventh seeds then found themselves 1-4, love-30 down in the decider, before digging deep to fight back and complete a 3-6, 6-0, 9-7 victory in 1 hour, 40 minutes on Court 8 at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in southwest London.     [FULL  STORY]

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