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Jonathan White

Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Belgian partner Elise Mertens have helped their claims for a place at next month’s WTA Finals with a second round win at Indian Wells to move on to the quarter-finals.
Hsieh, 35, and Mertens, 25, beat Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US and Poland’s Iga Swiatek in three sets at the BNP Paribas Open on Monday night in California.
It was the US-Polish pairing that took the first set with Mattek-Sands and Swiatek swatting Hsieh and Mertens aside 6-1.
The No 2 seeds played to their pre-tournament ranking in the second set, winning 6-4 to take it to a third set shoot-out.

Hsieh/Mertens complete the 1-6, 6-4, 10-8 comeback against Mattek-Sands/Swiatek.

The duo will meet Fernandez/Gauff in the quarterfinals!#BNPPO21 pic.twitter.com/DOK7QS3lGr
— BNP Paribas Open (@BNPPARIBASOPEN) October 11, 2021

Mertens and Hsieh won out – taking the shoot-out 10-8 for a place in the quarter-finals where they will face the teenage duo of Coco Gauff and Leylah Fernandez, the latter of whom reached the singles final at the US Open last month.
Gauff, 17, and Fernandez, 19, beat Demi Schurs and Nicole Melichar to reach the quarters, romping past the No 5 seeds in straight sets – 6-2, 6-3. The US-Canadian duo are yet to drop a set in the doubles.
Zheng’s doubles defeat end China interest in Indian Wells
The WTA Finals, which will take place in Guadalajara after being moved from Shenzhen, will see the top eight singles players and doubles partnerships on the Race to WTA Finals.
Hsieh and Mertens are ranked fifth on the current standings, a place behind US Open champions Zhang Shuai of China and Australia’s Samantha Stosur.
Zhang and Stosur did not play together at Indian Wells and no matter what happens against the teenage duo of Gauff and Fernandez, the Hsieh and Mertens will make up ground in their 19 point deficit in California.

The future is here ⭐️#BNPPO21 | @CocoGauff pic.twitter.com/0WAOEUMwzz
— BNP Paribas Open (@BNPPARIBASOPEN) October 12, 2021

Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova, the No 1 ranked pairing in the doubles race, have already qualified for a third WTA Finals.
The all-Japanese pairing of Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara have also qualified for their first WTA Finals. They beat Zhang and her partner Sania Mirza of India in the first round at Indian Wells
Top seeds Krejcikova and Siniakova are also in the Indian Wells quarters, as are the third seeds Aoyama and Shibahara.


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Hsieh Su-wei of Taiwan and Elise Mertens of Belgium in action against Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US and Iga Swiatek of Poland during the 2021 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. Photo: AFP

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