China Open: Maria Sharapova beats Ekaterina Makarova, Simona Halep next

Maria sharapova beat fellow russian ekaterina makarova in 3 sets to installation a third-round assembly with simona halep at the china open.

Wildcard sharapova beat international number 33 makarova 6-4 four-6 6-1, earlier than 2nd seed halep led magdalena rybarikova 6-2 2-1 while the slovak retired ill.

Halep now receives the danger to make up for her first-spherical loss to sharapova at the united states open in august.

Czech twelfth seed petra kvitova beat american varvara lepchenko 6-four 6-four.

The 2-time wimbledon champion seed will play denmark's international range six caroline wozniacki in spherical 3.

International variety four karolina pliskova went through with a 6-4 6-4 victory over andrea petkovic of germany, while us open semi-finalist coco vandeweghe retired from her fit towards daria gavrilova with a spine injury, with the australian main 6-three 2-0.

Sharapova, 30, has all received seven of her fits against halep, the sector variety two.

"we realize each different's video games very well, that's no mystery," stated the russian, ranked 104th after coming back from a 15-month doping suspension in april.

"they've always been very hard, difficult, competitive, emotional."

Wta finals countdown

With six of the places now confirmed for the 8-player season finale in singapore later this month, jelena ostapenko and johanna konta remain best positioned to take the two ultimate spots.

French open champion ostapenko will cozy the seventh place if the latvian beats australia's sam stosur on wednesday.

Konta misplaced within the first round, and has withdrawn from subsequent week's hong kong open with a foot harm, but stays nicely positioned to complete the road-up.

Her predominant risk is likely to return from france's caroline garcia, who wishes to reach as a minimum the semi-finals in beijing to extend her possibilities every other week. She performs belgian elise mertens on wednesday.