Wednesday 1 October 2014 14:21, UK
World No 3 Petra Kvitova continued her impressive late-season form with a 6-4 6-2 win over home-crowd favourite Peng Shuai in the China Open.
Last week the Czech won the Wuhan Open and she proved too strong for Peng, who reached the semi-finals at the US Open last month.
The Chinese star took a 2-0 lead before the Wimbledon champion stormed back, winning 12 of the next 16 games and wrapping up the match in just 66 minutes.
Peng had difficulty dealing with her left-handed opponent's powerful serves and Kvitova commented: "Some of the players, they didn't really get used to left-handers' serves. So I think that's my advantage."
She will next meet 16th seed Venus Williams in the third round.
World No 7 Carloine Wozniacki was hoping to confirm her place at the WTA Finals in Singapore, the end-of-season finale involving the world's top eight women players with a deep run in Beijing, but crashed out in her first match at the hands of Australian Samantha Stosur.
Stosur, the 2011 US Open champion, has had a miserable run in China lately, falling at the first hurdle in Guangzhou and Wuhan.
But the world No 20 was the more composed as the two players battled out a tense second-set tie break, saving five set points against her Danish opponent as she wrapped up a 6-4 7-6 (11/9) victory.
