Want China Times
Date: 2015-04-27
By: CNA

Taiwanese tennis player Hsieh Su-wei, who ended a long slump in singles with

Hsieh Su-wei during the 8th OEC Taipei WTA Challenger in Taipei, Nov. 5, 2014. (File photo/Huang Shih-chi)

a good showing in early March, won the singles title at a lower tier ITF event in Shenzhen on Sunday.

Hsieh, seeded third in the US$25,000 tournament, defeated unseeded Yang Zhaoxuan of China 6-2, 6-2 in Sunday’s final after having whipped top-seeded Duan Yingying 6-1, 6-2 in the semifinals a day earlier.

The win will earn Hsieh 50 ranking points, which should help her singles ranking improve from its current 155th in the world to somewhere inside the top 140.     [FULL  STORY]