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Taipei Times
Date: Jan 17, 2018
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, MELBOURNE
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei yesterday survived a three-set thriller in the first round of the
Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei returns to Zhu Lin of China in their Australian Open first-round singles match in Melbourne yesterday. Photo: AP
Australian Open as Roger Federer picked up where he left off on a day when Maria Sharapova and Novak Djokovic helped ensure there were all kinds of comebacks.
Hsieh lost the first set to love against world No. 113 Zhu Lin, with the 23-year-old Chinese looking comfortable and heading for victory before the match totally changed in the second set, the Taiwanese world No. 82 storming back to love to level the match at a set apiece.
“In the first set, she was playing very aggressive, but then she changed her game style in the second set. She played so well that I just didn’t have any chance to attack, she didn’t miss a ball,” Zhu told Xinhua news agency. [FULL STORY]