Sports China Open: Caroline Wozniacki knocked out

Caroline Wozniacki has been knocked out of the China Open tournament in Beijing after losing to Samantha Stosur on Wednesday.

The US Open 2014 finalist was beaten in straight sets 6-4 7-6 (11-9) by Stosur who herself is a former champion of the US Open .

Stosur needed a tie-break win in the second set to see off a late charge from Wozniacki,who threatened to drag the match into a third decisive set,although it didn't happen that way.

The Australian will now face either Alize Cornet or Lauren Davis in the next round of the competition.

Meanwhile Petra Kvitova had no problems seeing off the challenge of Peng Shuai in her own game.

The Czech player defeated the Chinese number one player 6-4 6-2 to go through,and she will come up against Venus Williams in the last 16.

In the men's draw,top seed Novak Djokovic sailed into the quarter-final of the China Open with victory over Canada's Vasek Pospisil.

Djokovic secured a 6-3 7-5 win to make the last eight of the competition and now on course to win the China Open for a record fifth time.

He will now face either fifth seed Grigor Dimitrov or Spain's Pablo Andujar in the next round.

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