Romanian-Taiwanese duo Monica Niculescu /Su-wei Hsieh on Wednesday eased past Swiss pairing Ylena In-Albon/Leonie Kung into the quarter finals of the women's doubles event of the 226,750-USD Biel Bienne WTA tournament after defeating it 6-2 6-1. It took the second-seeded pairing just 48 minutes to prevail. Niculescu/Hsieh had a remarkable second service (13/13), also saving six tiebreak balls.
Monica Niculescu/Su-wei Hsieh have won 1,820 US dollars and 60 WTA doubles points for their performance so far. In the quarter-finals, the duo meets Lenka Kuncikova (CZE)/Cornelia Lister (SWE), who defeated British pairing Jocelyn Rae/Anna Smith 6-3 6-4.
In the other quarter-final fixture, N.3 Romanian-Ukrainian pairing /Olga Savchuk, plays Swiss-Czech duo Viktorija Golubic/Kristyna Pliskova.
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