Chen Emerges After Hard Battle – China Open: Day 3
Third seed Chen Yu Fei survived a difficult second round against fast-improving Korean teen An Se Young to enter the quarterfinals of the VICTOR China Open 2019 today.
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The battle between the 17-year-old Korean and the 21-year-old Chinese was expected to be hard-fought, and it turned out exactly that way, with An staging a gritty fightback from 8-15 down in the opening game. She saved two game points to win the first, and it was neck-and-neck until the second game interval, after which Chen gradually pulled away.
An Se Young continued to resist in the third, building a 10-6 lead, but Chen then found her momentum, winning the next 12 of 13 points to effectively put it beyond her younger opponent.
“I played reasonably well at the start of the match, but my form dipped in the closing stages of the match. I need to improve in this area,” said An, while her opponent said she had upped the pace in the third game.