Qualifier Valeria Savinykh, 32, notched her first tour-level win since the 2013 Australian Open by overcoming Anna-Lena Friedsam in three sets in the first round of the Kinoshita Group Japan Open ...
Also, Fernandez beat Chinese qualifier You Xiaodi 6-4, 6-1 and Sasnovich eliminated Valeria Savinykh 6-3, 6-2.
In the other quarterfinals, Eva Birnerova beat Valeria Savinykh 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, and Urszula Radwanska defeated Eleni Daniilidou 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, to make it through to their first WTA Tour semifinal.