Su-Wei Hsieh ousts Kai-Chen Chang in round two - Guangzhou Int’l Women's Open 2012
In an all-Taiwanese contest, Su-Wei Hsieh scuttled past Kai-Chen Chang in straight sets 6-0, 6-3 to book a berth in the quarter-final of the GRC Bank Guangzhou International Women's Open on the morning of Wednesday. She dismissed
her compatriot in just 58 minutes into play.
The 53rd ranked Hsieh was playing her third contest against the 129th ranked Chang. Earlier, she had lost two local clashes played in 2010 and 2011 respectively. So, the pressure was definitely on the 26-year-old
Taiwanese contender to deliver and she did in grand fashion; ousting her opponent without breaking a sweat at all.
The score of the opening set clearly tells the whole story. It was a sorrow beginning that didn’t change at all for the 21-year-old Chang. She lost the breakpoint in the second game of the match and couldn’t win anything at all
from that stage. An incredible run of play from Hsieh absolutely demolished the youngster and didn’t allow her a single opportunity to settle into the atmosphere of the contest.
Hsieh won three back-to-back breakpoints and bagged 57 of the total 92 points played at the hard courts China. She started the second set with a serve hold and didn’t bother to waste a single moment in continuing with the supreme
moment; broke serve to take a lead of 2-0. Chang swirled the momentum in her favour with the first breakthrough of the match that yielded the maiden game for her as well.
A rare serve hold for the Taiwanese youngster made it 2-2 in the second set and it looked like Chang was planning to register a comeback into the contest. A swap of breakpoints kept the scores together at 3-3 and a stunning resistance
from the 21-year-old starlet forced Hsieh to work hard for her points but she did well to register a serve hold and make it 4-3 in her favour.
Chang lost the breakpoint in the following game and could just win one point on her opponent’s serve that ended the clash in favour of Hsieh who will be facing Mathilde Johansson in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
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