Taiwan female tennis players Latisha Chan (???) and Chan Hao-ching (???) were knocked out of the women-only Qatar Total Open’s doubles on Wednesday local time after losing in the quarterfinals to the second-seeded pair of Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko 5-7, 1-6.
Despite tying the Ukrainian-Latvian pairing 5-5 in the first set, the siblings yielded six game points in a row to see the Eastern European duo only two game points from next round. They then managed to nail their last game point on the outdoor hard court in Doha, before finding the deficit too large from them to overcome.
This is the Taiwanese siblings’ first pairing in about seven months since last July’s Ladies Open Lausanne, where they also made it as far as the quarterfinals.
The Chans had a bumpy start coming into Wednesday’s match, after dispatching Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States and Ellen Perez of Australia 7-6, 1-6, 12-10 in a 98-minute battle Tuesday.
Prior to Wednesday’s defeat, the younger Chan Hao-ching finished first and second in the WTA Thailand Open and the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open in February by pairing with Taiwan’s Wu Fang-hsien (???) and Japan’s Shuko Aoyama, respectively. With the former, she beat her sister in the semifinals in Thailand en route to her 19th WTA women’s doubles title.
After Wednesday’s triumph, Kichenok and Ostapenko, who made it to the semifinals in the 2022 French Open, will face off against the Chinese-Russian duo Yang Zhaoxuan (???) and Vera Zvonareva on Thursday for a berth in the finals.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel