Wednesday at the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open defined the quarterfinal field, seeing top seed Ashleigh Barty progress into the last eight, while second seed Karolina Pliskova was upset in straight sets.
Ashleigh Barty missed too many first serves midway through the second set, allowing her opponent Sofia Kenin to go up 5-3. The Australian world No.1 regrouped, saved two set points and won four straight games to close it out in straight sets, 6-3 7-5. Barty’s next opponent will be Croatia’s Petra Martic, who needed less than an hour to dispatch qualifier Veronika Kudermetova 6-3 6-1.