Taipei Times
Date: Jul 28, 2018
By: Dave Carroll  /  Staff reporter

Taiwan’s Liang En-shuo’s bid for a first WTA Tour title was yesterday ended by third seed Magda Linette at the Jiangxi Open in Nanchang, China, but her progress to the quarter-finals will see her ranking improve next week.

The 17-year-old world No. 405, who won the Australian Open girls’ singles title in January, fell to a 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 defeat to the Polish world No. 80 in 1 hour, 55 minutes in the first of yesterday’s quarter-finals.

In the first set, Liang converted one of the two break points she created, but failed to save three of four, with just a 39 percent success rate on her first serve.

However, the Taiwanese improved her first-serve percentage to 76 in the second set, did not face a single break point and converted one of five.    [FULL  STORY]