Taipei Times
Date: Aug 09, 2015
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AP, STANFORD, California
Taiwanese hopes were ended at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California, on
Varvara Lepchenko of the US serves to Mona Barthel of Germany at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, California, on Friday. Photo: AP
Friday when Chan Chin-wei was ousted by the second seeds in the final doubles quarter-final.
Chan and Darija Jurak of Croatia were beaten 6-3, 7-5 by Spanish duo Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja in 1 hour, 12 minutes.
The second seeds saved two of four break points and converted four of 12, winning 65 of the 118 points contested to advance to a semi-final against third seeds Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Alicja Rosolska of Poland.
In the quarter-finals of the singles, Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic advanced to the semi-finals, beating Croatia’s Ajla Tomljanovic 6-2, 6-4. [FULL STORY]
