she may be ranked 35 places below her, but pan pacific open —— camila giorgi knows how to be caroline wozniacki tokyo, racing through the first set, but met more resistance in the second as the defending champion battled back. caroline wasn't about to relate couche—tard without a fight to the breakup in the decider and the former world number one looked in control, but her opponent had other ideas. after holding serve, camila giorgi broke back immediately and won six of the remaining eight games of. —— gains. facing her in the quarter—finals will be another formal world one. despite slipping down the rankings, victoria azarenka is at play inform. —— a player in. if the belarusian had a comfortable that tree as she dominated the match from the baseline. the two—time grand slam champion was rarely troubled as she eased her way into the last eight. joining her is donna vecic. having lost the first set, joanna cotter raced into a 4—1 lead in the second before concluding with a series of u nforced before concluding with a series of unforced errors. the unseeded croatian, who beats sloane stephens in

defending champion caroline wozniacki is out of the pan pacific open in tokyo after losing to camila decision by the world anti doping agency to lift the suspension of russia's anti—doping agency. rusada have been banned for the best part of three years after evidence of state sponsored doping on a mass scale, but they've now been

tennis, and there were shock defeats for both caroline wozniacki and angelique kerber at the wuhan openmber two seed was beaten in straight sets by monica puig from puerto rico, who had to qualify for the tournament. puig, who's the reigning olympic champion, won 7—6, 7—5 to seal her place in the quarter—finals. puig will now face the local favourite, wang qiang. the chinese number one, who's ranked 34 in the world, beat the unseeded australian daria gavrilova to stay on course for back—to—back tour titles following her victory in guangzhou last week. wang, who also won on home soil in jiangxi back in july, came through in straight sets 7—5, 6—2. she's on the verge of breaking into the world's top 30 for the first time. in the other half of the draw, the number three seed and reigning wimbledon champion, anqelique kerber, was knocked out by ashleigh barty. the number 16 seed from australia won a tight first set 7—5, and then raced through the second for the loss ofjust one game. barty now plays anastasia pavlyuchenkova, who beat petra kvitova, but had to come from behind to win after th