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By Chris Oddo | Thursday February 1, 2018

Caroline Wozniacki was ruthless in her first match since winning the Australian Open title, notching a 6-0, 6-1 victory over 16-year-old Anastasia Potapova to reach the quarterfinals in St. Petersburg.

Winning, Losing and Growing: Wozniacki and Halep Both Won Big in Melbourne

Wozniacki had to work a bit for her first-set bagel, but overcome Potapova despite the fact that each of the Russian’s service games went to multiple deuces.

Wozniacki converted three of 12 break points and dropped only two points on serve in the opening set.

The 2016 Wimbledon champion managed a break in the second set but that game would be her only one. The Dane rolled to victory in 67 minutes, thanks to a +6 winners to unforced errors ratio (16, 10), while Potapova cracked 17 winners against 31 unforced.

Wozniacki will face No.8-seeded Daria Kasatkina on Friday.

Other winners on Thursday were No.4-seeded Kristina Mladenovic, who snapped a 15-match singles losing streak by defeating Dominika Cibulkova, 6-4, 6-4, and No.5-seeded Julia Goerges, who rolled past Italy’s Roberta Vinci, 7-5, 6-0.


It was also a good day for the Czechs as wild card Petra Kvitova slipped by Irina-Camelia Begu, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1, to set a quarterfinal with No.2-seeded Jelena Ostapenko, while Katerina Siniakova defeated Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova, 7-6(7), 7-5.

The quarterfinals shape up as follows in St. Petersburg

 

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