Fifth seed Sybille Bammer of Austria beat Taiwan’s Chang Kai-chen 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of the Pattaya Open yesterday.
The Taiwanese youngster made a good start against her more experienced opponent but one of the few mother’s on the WTA circuit proved too good for the 19-year-old from Taoyuan.
The Taiwanese, who has set herself the target of reaching the world top 50 this year, beat Thailand’s Varatchaya Wongteanchai in three sets in the first round.
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Taiwan’s other representative in the singles, Chan Yung-jan, also lost in the second round yesterday to Tatjana Malek.
The German won the first set 6-2 before Chan stormed back to take the second set without dropping a game.
The 22-year-old Malek took the match by winning a hard-fought final set 7-5.
In other action yesterday, No. 1 seed Vera Zvonareva of Russia beat Italy’s Alberta Brianti 6-3, 6-2 and Ekaterina Bychkova pulled off a surprise by beating third seeded compatriot Vera Dushevina 6-4, 6-1.
The 121st-ranked Moscow-born Bychkova has yet to win a WTA singles title
Thailand’s Tamarine Tanasugarn stunned Sabine Lisicki on Wednesday, advancing to the quarter-finals with a battling 6-3, 3-6, 7-5 victory over the second seeded German.
The result continued a poor start to the 2010 season for Lisicki, who fell to Victoria Azarenka in her opening round in Sydney and then, ranked 24, she was upset in the second round of the Australian Open by 73rd-ranked Brianti.
The match was an absorbing contest between two players who rallied consistently well and made few unforced errors.
The final set hung in the balance until the end, as Lisicki broke to lead 4-2 when Tanasugarn double-faulted and Tanasugarn immediately broke back with a winning return.
Another unplayable return then gave Tanasugarn a further break for 6-5, and she safely served out the match.
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