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Sunday, Apr 10, 2005

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Chan completes double

MUMBAI, APRIL 9. Top seeded Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei completed her double in the $10,000 ITF women's tennis tournament today with a fluent 6-2, 6-3 triumph over second-seeded Montinee Tangphong of Thailand.

In a battle between baseliners at the Practennis School of Tennis here, Chan, ranked 282 in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) list, capped a week of brilliant tennis to demolish her opponent in a final that lasted one hour, 17 minutes. Chan won the doubles crown yesterday.

Chan came up with a controlled game that included brilliant ground strokes and passing winners to dominate throughout. She took the opening set with breaks in the fourth and eighth games.

Tangphong, 361 in the WTA rankings, made a brief comeback bid in the second set but her error prone game didn't help her cause. Though the Thai, a regular in the ITF circuit in Mumbai and is familiar with the conditions here, was broken early in the second game of the second set, she came back into the contest to break Chan in the fifth game and held serve in the sixth for 3-3.

But Chan broke Tangphong in the crucial eighth game to seal the game and match. Chan earned $1,568 and six points for her effort, while Tangphong received $980 and four points. — UNI

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