Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Flavia Pennetta of Italy crashed out of the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at the Madrid Open yesterday.
The fourth seeds were beaten 6-4, 6-1 by Casey Dellacqua of Australia and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan as their new partnership once again failed to fire.
Hsieh and Pennetta converted just three of nine break-point opportunities, while their opponents converted six of nine to complete the victory in 54 minutes on the clay courts of the Caja Magica.
Hsieh and Pennetta have managed just two doubles victories since they paired up in March after they crashed out in the first round at Indian Wells and in the second round in Miami.
The Taiwanese-Italian duo advanced to the quarter-finals after recovering from a disastrous start in their second-round clash with Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Wednesday.
Hsieh and Pennetta, who were handed a bye in the first round as the No. 4 seeds, converted just one of five break-point chances and saved none of three as they crashed to a 1-6 loss in the first set, before roaring back to win the second 6-0, saving all three break-point chances they faced and converting three of six.
That momentum then saw them cruise to a 10-4 victory in the super tiebreak to complete the topsy-turvy victory over the Russian pairing in 55 minutes.
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