Chan, the world juniors No. 7, started listlessly but retrieved shot after shot from the second set on to repeat over compatriot Hsu Wen-Hsin, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, and earn a second consecutive girls’ singles title.
It was a virtual repeat of their finals setto last year which Chan won in an almost similar fashion, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. This time, an injury on Hsu’s right foot helped the 15-year-old Chan to keep her title which she hopes she will be able to keep for two more years before she leaves the juniors competitions.
Hsu, after an easy romp in the first set, broke her right foot toenail while trailing 2-4 in the second set, hampering her movement.
"I cannot run after that," lamented Hsu.
For Chan, it was a sweet victory and came after she had anxious moments prior to the finals.
"I had a spell of headaches the last two days and was a little tired prior to the finals," offered Chan, who is also a world-ranked campaigner in the Women’s Tennis Association at No. 335.
"I tried to get my game back in the second set and I was lucky she got injured and I just tried to make her run, lessen my mistakes and make her work for her points," Chan said after the two hours and 24 minutes match that gave her 150 ITF ranking points.
Chan later on returned with compatriot Hwang I-Hsuan to defend the doubles title she won with Hsu last year. Chan and Hwang thumped the second-seeded pair of Amina Rakhim of Kazakhstan and Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, 6-4, 6-1.
Sharing the day’s honors with Chan was Magdas who made short work of Martin Sayer of Hong Kong, 6-4, 6-3, in just 70 minutes.
Magdas, ranked 54th in the world juniors and seeded sixth in this Group 1 event, the strongest juniors event in Asia today, came back from a 2-4 deficit in the first set, winning the next seven games for a 6-4 first set win and a 3-0 lead in the second.
And when Sayer, the losing finalist in the Thailand juniors last week, evened the count at 3-3, Magdas, a mainstay in the Kuwait Davis Cup squad, regained his bearing to win 13 of the next 17 points to complete the title conquest.
"It has been a very good week for me. Today proved to be my toughest day but I worked 100 percent. He (Sayer) is a very good player and I was wary of him having watched him in Thailand last week. Luckily, my game held and I was able to beat him," Magdas said.
In the boys’ doubles finals played late Saturday night, the top-seeded Indian pair of Vivek Shokeen and Sanam Singh outplayed the pair of Lee Hsin-Han of Taiwan and Christoph Llewellyn of Great Britain, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4, for the crown.
