Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/04/26
By: Lee Chin-wei and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, April 26 (CNA) Taiwanese tennis player Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇), who

Hsieh Su-wei (謝淑薇).

ended a long slump in singles with 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 (楊釗煊) 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]