Rybakina ranked 450 beats Garcia

In Taipei City four quarter finalists have been determined and another seed has fallen in the process.

In a see-sawing affair, Monica Niculescu finally had the better of Zarina Diyas (6).

Monica began the match in dominant fashion, winning all but two points on her serve, and 62% of points on her opponents serve as well. 6-0.

Zarina quickly reversed the momentum in set two, breaking the Romanian twice, on the back of winning half the points on Monica’s serve.0-6 6-1.

The deciding set was tight on the scoreboard, despite Niculescu winning the points battle clearly, both on her serve, and returning.

Break opportunities came frequently- 6 for Niculescu, 4 of which were converted, and 5 for Diyas, 3 converted.

The match score 6-0 1-6 6-4.

Other quarter finalists:

Sabine Lisicki - who beat Nao Hibino 6-4 6-1

She will play Monica Niculescu in the quarter finals.

Yulia Putintseva (5) - who beat Kai-Chen Chang 6-3 7-6(3)

She will play Kateryna Kozlova in the quarter finals.

Kateryna Kozlova - who beat Ying-Ying Duan 3-6 6-2 7-6(4)

Three second round matches were completed in St Petersburg after the two remaining first round encounters had been decided.

Those latter clashes were:

Ekaterina Makarova defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (6) 6-4 6-4

Makarova will play Katerina Siniakova in the second round.

Wildcard Petra Kvitova defeating Elena Vesnina (7) 6-2 6-0

Kvitová will play Irina-Camellia Begu in the second round.

Quarter finalists:

Daria Kasatkina (8) - who beat Alize Cornet 6-2 6-1.

She will play the winner of Caroline Wozniacki (1) and wildcard Anastasia Potapova.

Qualifier Elena Rybakina - who beat Caroline Garcia (3) 4-6 7-6(6) 7-6(5).

Rybakina, a Russian 18 year old, ranked 450 before this tournament, has come through qualifying and beaten a top 50 opponent and now a top 10 member (after dropping the first set).

She has moved to a live ranking of 268 because of her efforts here.

Elena will play the winner of Julia Goerges (5) and qualifier Roberta Vinci.

Jelena Ostapenko (2) - who beat wildcard Vera Zvonareva 7-6(6) 6-3

She will play the winner of wildcard Petra Kvitova and Irina-Camellia Begu.