Sunday, December 30, 2012

2013 tennis season underway

So it's not 2013 yet but the WTA and the ATP have already started their year off.

The Taiwanese women contingent will be playing in Shenzhen this week. Already Hsieh Su-Wei has won her first against the lefty Melinda Czink. She would go on to play doubles with her sister Hsieh Shu-Ying in the last match of the night. They would beat the fourth seed pair of Mandy Minella and Timea Babos in two tiebreakers. Congrats on the good start girls!

Other Taiwanese players in Shenzhen are Chan Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-Jan who are seeded first in doubles. Yung-Jan will also play in singles against Ayumi Morita in the first round. Chang Kai-Chen will also be doing singles and doubles. In singles she's facing Silvia Soler-Espinosa and in doubles she's playing with (the recently returned from maternity leave) Yan Zi.

As for the men, Yan Tsung-Hua and Lu Yen-Hsun are in Chennai. Tsung-Hua has already lost in qualifying (boo). Yen-Hsun is seeded seventh and will play Matthias Bachinger of Germany in the first round.

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