New York, Sep 7: Taiwan's Chan Yung-jan and Chuang Chia-jung reached the women's doubles final at the US Open today with a 6-2 7-6 victory over Agnes Szavay of Hungary and Czech Vladimira Ulihrova.

Fifth seeds Chan and Chuang eased through the first set and held on to win the tiebreak 7-5 and reach their second grand-slam final, having been runners-up at the Australian Open in January.

The Taiwanese will play either sixth seeds Rennae Stubbs of Australia and Czech Kveta Peschke or seventh seeds Nathalie Dechy of France and Russian Dinara Safina.

Chan and Chuang are the first Taiwanese pair to reach a final at the US Open.

''It's a very good feeling,'' Chuang said. ''I think we're getting better and better. We have worked a lot on strategy (since Australia) and it would be good for our national tennis (if we won the title).

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