Taipei Times
Date: Feb 25, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA and AP, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates

Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and her doubles partner Peng Shuai of China were one match away from the women’s doubles title at the Dubai Championships after an intense semi-final match on Friday.

The fourth-seed Hsieh and Peng faced off against the first-seeded Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia, last year’s Dubai Championships women’s doubles title winners.

The Taiwanese-Chinese duo easily won the first set 6-1, but suffered a defeat in the second set 3-6, leading them into a final tie-breaking set.    [FULL  STORY]