Taiwan’s No. 1 female tennis player, Chan Yung-jan (詹詠然), lost to Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer in straight sets in the second round of the Hansol Korean Open in Seoul yesterday.
Wickmayer, 18, took the first set 6-3 before claiming victory over the No. 8 seed by winning the second set on a tie-break 7-6(2).
Chan, 19, has yet to beat the Belgian No.1, having also lost to her in Taoyuan last year.
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Wickmayer is enjoying a good year with a 37-18 record in singles matches, which has boosted her raking from 175 at the end of last year to 68 today.
In other matches in Seoul, third seed Kaia Kanepi of Estonia breezed past qualifier Anastasia Pivovarova of Russia 6-1, 6-1. She will meet Wickmayer in the quarter-finals.
Russian No. 1 seed Maria Kirilenko beat Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-3, while fifth seed Pauline Parmentier of France defeated Canada’s Stephanie Dubois 6-3, 6-2.
In the quarter-finals of the doubles competition Taiwan’s Chan Chin-wei (詹謹瑋) and Natalie Grandin of South Africa pulled off a surprise win by downing No. 2 seeds Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and Shahar Peer of Israel in three sets.
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