Taiwanese tennis player Chan Hao-ching (詹皓晴) and her Russian partner, Veronika Kudermetova, were knocked out of the US Open women’s doubles following their semifinal defeat on Wednesday (New York time).
Chan and Kudermetova struggled in the first set, unable to even win their service games. They lost five consecutive games, ultimately losing the set 1-6 against Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok and Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko.
The second set was also difficult for the Taiwan-Russia duo. While they did break a serve in the fourth game after losing three straight games, they still lost the set 2-6 and were knocked out.
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However, the result still marked Chan’s best result at the US Open in women’s doubles.
It is also the first time Kudermetova played in the tournament’s semifinals since 2020.
The Ukraine-Latvia, who pair play in the final on Friday, won silver in this year’s Australian Open women’s doubles.
Meanwhile, Jessica Pegula pulled off a major upset in the women’s singles by beating Iga Swiatek, the No. 1-ranked woman, 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday night to win a Grand Slam quarter-final for the first time on her seventh try.
The No. 6-seeded Pegula, a 30-year-old American, has won 14 of her past 15 matches and would make her debut appearance in the semifinals of a Slam early this morning against unseeded Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic.
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