Taipei Times
Date: Jan 09, 2018
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with Reuters, SYDNEY
Taiwan’s Latisha Chan yesterday advanced to the quarter-finals of the doubles at the
Germany’s Angelique Kerber returns to Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in their Sydney International first-round women’s singles match in Australia yesterday. Photo: AFP
Sydney International, while US Open champion Sloane Stephens was bundled out of the first round of the singles.
Top seeds Chan, who previously competed on the WTA Tour using her Chinese name, Chan Yung-jan, and Andrea Sestini Hlavackova survived a second-set fightback by Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain and Renata Voracova of the Czech Republic to claim a 6-2, 4-6, 10-3 victory in 73 minutes.
The Taiwanese-Czech duo saved three of six break points and converted four of six, winning 64 of the 117 points contested, despite sending down six double faults at the final warm-up tournament before the Australian Open begins on Monday next week.
In the quarter-finals, doubles world No. 1 Chan and world No. 5 Sestini Hlavackova face either Andreja Klepac and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez or Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Vania King, who are scheduled to play their first-round match today. [FULL STORY]