Hsieh Su-wei wins doubles gold again at Dubai Tennis Championships

2020/02/25

Defending champions Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and her doubles partner Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic triumphed at the Dubai Tennis Championships Feb. 22, keeping their cool in the desert heat in the face of determined opposition.
 
 Battling to a hard-fought 7-5, 3-6, 10-5 victory, the top-seeded pair defeated Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic and Zheng Saisai of China in the final.
 
 Splitting the opening 10 games of the first set, Hsieh and Strycova took control by breaking Zheng’s serve after a back-and-forth rally. The pair held serve in the next game, converting on their fifth set point.
 
 Momentum remained with the Taiwan-Czech combination to begin the second set as they raced out to a 3-1 lead, but their challengers were unwilling to give up without a fight, roaring back to take the next five games and force a tiebreak set.
 
 Despite digging themselves into a 0-3 deficit, Hsieh and Strycova rediscovered their touch at the net to reel off eight straight points and win 10-5 in the decider following a double fault from their Chinese opponent.
 
 Hsieh’s run marks her third consecutive year reaching the women’s doubles final in Dubai. She finished as runner-up with partner Peng Shuai of China in 2018, before pairing up with Strycova last year.

Source: Taiwan Today (https://taiwantoday.tw/index.php)