CZECH MATE: Second seeds Lucie Hradecka and Katerina Siniakova proved too hot to handle for Chan Chin-wei and Nicole Melichar, while Lee Ya-hsuan also crashed out
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 03, 2017
By: Dave Carroll and Jason Pan / Staff reporters
Taiwan’s Lee Ya-hsuan and Chan Chin-wei were both ousted in the quarter-finals of the
Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina returns to Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic in their Taiwan Open second-round singles match at the Taipei Arena yesterday. Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times
doubles at the Taiwan Open yesterday, while Elina Svitolina, one of the few surviving seeds, progressed to the quarter-finals of the singles in straight sets at the Taipei Arena.
Lee and Peangtarn Plipuech fell to a 2-6, 6-2, 10-7 comeback victory by Nao Hibino and Zhang Kailin in 69 minutes.
“It was disappointing for me. I had miscues and unforced errors several times, and lost the points and should have made some shots, but did not do it. For these mistakes, I want to apologize to my doubles partner,” Lee said.
“It was not a good performance from me today, it was worse than my opening match … I missed some block shots up front. When going to the net, I can get nervous and it showed,” Lee said. “In the second set, our opponents slowed the tempo and changed the pace of the game, and we were slow to make the adjustment.” [FULL STORY]
