Taipei Times
Date: Sep 04, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, NEW YORK
Taiwan’s Chan sisters, Chuang Chia-jung and Lu Yen-hsun crashed out of the US Open on Friday,
Taiwan’s Lu Yen-hsun returns to Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic in their first-round singles match at the US Open in New York on Tuesday. Photo: AP
failing to make the second week in the women’s and men’s doubles tournaments at Flushing Meadows in New York.
Second seeds Chan Hao-ching and Chan Yung-jan fought back from a set down to level the match against unseeded duo Alla Kudryavtseva and Sabine Lisicki in their second-round women’s doubles match, but eventually succumbed 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 in 1 hour, 20 minutes.
The Russian-German pairing saved four of nine break points and converted six of nine, winning 68 of the 135 points contested to advance to a third-round clash with 13th-seeded Slovenians Andreja Klepac and Katarina Srebotnik.
In the first round of the women’s doubles, Chuang and Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine also fought back from a set down, but exited 6-0, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3 to Naomi Broady and Shelby Rogers in 2 hours, 10 minutes. [FULL STORY]
