Impressive Caroline Wozniacki continues march in Auckland

ByReuters

Updated 03/01/2018 at 08:39 GMT

Caroline Wozniacki continued to build on her WTA Finals victory late last year with another impressive performance on her way to a 6-2 6-2 victory over Croatia's Petra Martic to reach the quarter-finals of the Auckland Classic on Wednesday.

Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic returns a shot during her Women's Singles Semifinal match against Caroline Garcia of France on day eight of 2017 China Open at the China National Tennis Centre on October 7, 2017 in Beijing, China.

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The Danish world number three ended 2017 with the biggest title of her career in Singapore and returned a day after thrashing Madison Brengle in her season opener to hit 21 winners against eight unforced errors in the 53-minute win over Martic.

"I'm trying to stay aggressive," Wozniacki said in a court-side interview. "I still made some unforced errors. It's taking a few matches to play like 100 percent but I still felt I played pretty well today."

Top seed Wozniacki started brightly with a break of serve to love on her way to an early 3-0 lead and added another break in the eighth game to wrap up the opening set in just 24 minutes on a glorious day in New Zealand's largest city.

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Martic tried to mount a comeback early in the second when she broke for a 2-0 lead but Wozniacki won the final six games behind impressive serving numbers, including six aces, to book a last eight encounter with young American Sofia Kenin.

"I've worked on everything I need to work on in the off-season," Wozniacki added as she continues her preparations for the Australian Open starting in Melbourne on Jan. 15.

"Now it's just a matter of working out how to incorporate that into your match or into a situation where you maybe get nervous."

Kenin, a 19-year-old wild card, knocked out compatriot Varvara Lepchenko 6-4 7-6(6) earlier in the day and there were also victories for Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strycova.

Hsieh eased to a 6-4 6-3 victory over Belgian qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure to set up a quarter-final clash against Strycova after the third seeded Czech edged out Sweden's Johanna Larsson 6-1 6-7(3) 6-2. (Reporting by John O'Brien in Singapore; Editing by Greg Stutchbury)

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