Chan Yung-Jan and Chuang Chia-Jung Enter Finals
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Sports, Tennis | Leave a Comment
After a straight-set semi-final triumph on Thursday Taiwan’s Chan Yung-Jan and Chuang Chia-Jung will try to claim their homeland’s first Grand Slam tennis title at the US Open on Sunday.
Chan and Chuang defeated Hungary’s Agnes Szavay, a singles quarter-finalist, and Czech Vladimira Uhlirova 6-2, 7-6 (7/5). This win has pushed them to book a berth in the championship match. The winning team will divide 400,000 dollars of the prize money.
After winning the semi-finals Chan said that they are very happy and they feel great. To win the title fifth seeds Chan and Chuang will play against Russia’s Dinara Safina and France’s Nathalie Dechy, the seventh seeds. In the other semi-final they beat Australian Rennae Stubbs and Czech Kveta Peschke 6-4, 6-4 to enter the final.
Chan, 18, and Chuang, 22, made an advance for Taiwan by reaching this year’s Australian Open women’s doubles final, but lost to Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and South Africa’s Liezel Huber 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 6-1.
Chan and Chuang won their semi-final match in one hour 43 minutes, hitting 52 percent of their first serves but taking 27-of-37 first-serve points and answering their European rivals by taking 21-of-51 points on their first serve.
The Asian duo enjoyed the atmosphere in their first match on famed Arthur Ashe Stadium court.
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