The third round was left partially completed today with two matches (Kuznetsova vs Cirstea and Kvitova vs Keys) postponed until tomorrow due to rain.
(Rank/Seed)
4/2 Radwanska won her 400th career match with a 63 64 over (23/16) Cibulkova, avenging a loss this summer in Stanford. Radwanska moved sharply and served well in contrast to the previous round, whilst Cibulkova won more points behind her second serve than her first! Radwanska has now made the quarters here every year since she first played in 2008.
8/4 Wozniacki was sublime against Rybarikova, mixing up her backhand especially well en route to a 61 61 win to reach her 3rd Tokyo quarter final.
9/5 Kerber continued her recent good form in beating (16/11) Ivanovic 64 62; her 1st win over the Serb in 4 career meetings. This is her 2nd straight quarter final here.
Rising 19 year old Canadian Bouchard upset 2009 finalist (10/6) Jankovic 75 62 for her 2nd top 10 win of the year, but her 1st that wasn't gifted due to retirement. Though she struggled for the 1st ten games, Bouchard eventually took her coach's (former number 3 Nathalie Tauziat) advice to play more aggressively and dominated from there on in. Jankovic looked disconsolate as her hopes of reaching the year end championships were jeopardised.
Elsewhere, recent Quebec City champion Safarova dropped serve only once to score a 7th win in 9 meetings against (17/12) Stosur 64 64. Venus Williams also continued impressively, edging red hot (18/13) Halep 46 75 63, despite trailing a break in both the second and third sets.
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