Fourth seed Elina Svitolina playing 15 year old Marta Kostyuk.
Kostyuk was ranked 522 before making it this far and because of her success she will jump to at least 247.
First up she broke Svitolina to love, with two winners the highlight.
A double fault from the teenager donated a break point to Svitolina and the fourth seed won the game to level at 1-1.
Elina won the third game, clinching it with an ace. Kostyuk won her second game, a backhand winner the final point.
Svitolina won the next two games, the first to love and then another break, taking 14 points, four deuces, and three break points.
At 2-4, Kostyuk was struggling against a top five opponent in top form - Elina held serve comfortably and broke once more to take the set 6-2.
The first two games of set two were shared, but Svitolina then won the next three, breaking the Kostyuk serve twice in the process.
Kostyuk stopped the bleeding with a strong sixth service game, forcing errors from the Svitolina racquet three times.
2-4 became 2-5 as the fourth seed won yet another love game.
Two match points, and a double fault was enough to give the victory to Elina Svitolina 6-2 6-2.
Next for Elina will be qualifier Denisa Allertova.
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