SIBLING SEMIS: Hsieh Su-wei and Hsieh Yu-chieh upset the tournament’s top seeds, while Latisha Chan and Chan Hao-ching were taken to a super tiebreak before winning
Taipei Times
Date: Sep 20, 2019
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter
The Hsieh sisters yesterday stunned the top seeds in the quarter-finals of the doubles at the Pan Pacific Open, while fellow Taiwanese the Chan sisters survived a scare to book their place in today’s semi-finals in Osaka, Japan.
Unseeded Hsieh Su-wei and Hsieh Yu-chieh were the underdogs in their quarter-final, but managed to pull off a shock 6-3, 7-5 victory over Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Demi Schuurs of the Netherlands in 1 hour, 7 minutes.
The Taiwanese duo saved four of eight break points and converted six of 11, winning 63 percent of the points on their opponents’ first serve to advance to the semi-finals.
The Hsieh sisters next face Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine and Abigail Spears of the US, who rallied from a set down to defeat Japanese duo Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya 2-6, 6-1, 13-11 in 1 hour, 20 minutes. [FULL STORY]