Chinese
Taipei duo retains doubles title at Sony Ericsson International
BANGALORE,
FEBRUARY 18, 2007: It was a perfect day to start the Chinese New
Year. The defending champions from Chinese Taipei Yung-Jan Chan
and Chia-Jung Chuang retained their doubles title at Sony Ericsson
International, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour today by defeating fourth
seed Su-Wei Hsieh of Chinese Taipei and Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia
6-7 (4-7), 6-2 (11-9) at the KSLTA Signature Kingfisher Tennis
Centre.
By
beating the Taipei-Russian duo, Chan-Chuang earned Sony Ericsson
trophy, prize money of $7,620 and 140 points, while the runners-up
earned $4,020, 100 points and trophy. The trophies were prize
by Karnataka Education Minister Shri. R. Ashok and prize money
was handed over by Canara Bank Chairman and Managing Director
Shri. M.D.N. Rao. Sony Ericsson Communications Manager Sudhir
Mathur presented the latest mobile phones to the winners.
In
a battle of nerves and serves, the Chang-Chuang players played
extremely good tennis and maintained the suspense till the end,
though they were out played by Hsieh-Kudryavtseva in the first
set 7-6 (7-3).
Going
by the first set, the 105-minute battle could have gone either
way as the first and fourth seed players broke each other service
twice to reach tie-breaker at 6-6. At one stage, Hsieh-Kudryavtseva
was leading 4-1. But, Chan-Chuang sprung back and bagged the next
three points to place the game evenly at 4-4. Immediately, Hsieh-
Kudryavtseva tightened the noose and bagged the next three points
and the set (7-4).
However,
Chan-Chuang decided to spoil Hsieh-Kudryavtseva party though the
game was evenly poised at 2-2 in the second set. The champions
played some serious tennis and and broke Hsieh-Kudryavtseva services
in the third fifth and seventh fourth game to conquer the next
four games 6-2 that forced them to enter the super tie-breaker
to determine the winner.
The
super tie-breaker looked like a ding-dong battle with Hsieh-Kudryavtseva
down from 4-7 raced to level the score at 9-9. Finally, the champions
showed their might and retained the title (11-9).
Results
of the day:
Doubles
Final:
Yung-Jan
Chan (Tpe)/ Chia-Jung Chuang (Tpe) bt Su-Wei Hsieh (Tpe)/ Alla
Kudryavtseva (Rus) 6-7 (4-7), 6-2 (11-9).
