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Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens Advance to Top 8 in Australian Open Women’s Doubles

2024-01-21 14:59 United Daily News reporter Zeng Siru / real-time reporting Xie Shuwei. Reuters (file photo)

Hsieh Su-wei, who won the Wimbledon Gold Cup in 2021, and her Belgian partner Elise Mertens reunited at this year’s Australian Open. The two seeds, ranked second, met Italian pair Sara Errani in the third round today. / Jasmine Paolini, who lost the first set and came back to win, won the top 8 tickets with 3:6, 6:3, 7:5.

Taiwan has been completely wiped out in singles this year, but the women’s doubles did have good results. Only Zhan Haoqing and her Mexican partner Giuliana Olmos were stopped in the second round. Wu Fangxian/Zhu Lin’s “Strait Team” and Hsieh Su-wei’s Taiwanese team both scored. Round three.

The Taiwanese team, ranked second seed, faced the third round first. Facing Alani, who had won the Women’s Doubles Gold Cup in all four Grand Slams, she was broken in the 8th game of the first set, allowing the Italian team to lead 6:3. In the next game, the Taibi combination broke serve immediately at the beginning of the second set, leading 3:0 in the game to lay the foundation for victory, and evened the set at 6:3.

In the decisive set, the table match team once again acted as the first to break serve, but the 3:1 lead was broken in the 8th game and the game was evened. Fortunately, in the crucial 11th game, the table match team had another chance to break serve, and finally won 7:5. Next victory.

This third round match lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes, longer than the first two rounds of the second seed combined. The Taibi combination has worked hard to advance to the top 8, and will face the winner of the battle between the 6th seed and the 9th seed in the next game.

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