Taipei Times
Date: May 28, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter, with AFP, PARIS
Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Chuang Chia-jung cruised into the second round of the mixed doubles
Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching, left, and Scotland’s Jamie Murray celebrate a point against Australia’s Daria Gavrilova and John Peers in the first round of the mixed doubles at the French Open in Paris on Thursday. Photo: Courtesy of Chan Hao-Ching’s Facebook page
at the French Open in Paris on Thursday.
Top seeds Chan and Jamie Murray eased past Australian duo Daria Gavrilova and John Peers 6-1, 6-2 on Court 15 at Roland Garros.
The Taiwanese-Scottish pairing saved one of the two break points they faced and converted five of eight, winning 52 of the 84 points contested to advance to a second-round clash against either Tatjana Maria of Germany and Nicolas Mahut of France or Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia and Rohan Bopanna of India.
On Court 8, Chuang and Henri Kontinen downed French duo Pauline Parmentier and Julien Benneteau 6-3, 6-3.
The Taiwanese-Finnish pairing saved both break points they faced and converted all three they created, winning 60 of the 101 points contested to advance to a second-round clash with either eighth-seeded US duo Coco Vandeweghe and Bob Bryan or French pairing Virginie Razzano and Vincent Millot.
Chan Hao-ching’s elder sister, Chan Yung-jan, and Max Mirnyi of Belarus, the seventh seeds, were due to take on Romanian duo Simona Halep and Horia Tecau in the first round late yesterday.
In the singles yesterday, fourth-seeded Garbine Muguruza and sixth-seeded Simona Halep both reached the last 16, but in contrasting fashions. [FULL STORY]
