Taipei Times
Date: Nov 15, 2016
By: Dave Carroll / Staff reporter
Seeded players Naomi Broady and Risa Ozaki fell to unexpected defeats on the the opening day of the
Taiwan’s Lee Ya-hsuan returns to Dalila Jakupovic of Slovenia in their OEC Taipei WTA Challenger first-round singles match at the Taipei Arena yesterday. Photo: Lin Cheng-kung, Taipei Times
OEC Taipei WTA Challenger at the Taipei Arena yesterday.
British second seed Broady came unstuck against a familiar opponent in her first-round match, falling to a 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (7/4) defeat to wild-card Vitalia Diatchenko.
The Russian world No. 553 saved one of four break points and converted two of four to edge the world No. 88 in 2 hours, 7 minutes, improving her career record over the Briton to 4-1 in the past seven years.
Japanese fifth seed Ozaki also made an early exit from the WTA 125k tournament when she fell to a 6-1, 6-3 defeat to Olga Govortsova in just 61 minutes.
The Belarussian world No. 198 saved one of two break points and converted five of eight, winning 56 of the 89 points contested to improve her career record against the world No. 94 to 2-0 following a similarly one-sided 6-1, 6-0 victory at last year’s Australian Open. [FULL STORY]
