Second seed Caroline Wozniacki has conceded she needs to bring a better performance to the table after booking her place in the quarter-finals of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Wozniacki steamrollered Nadia Petrova in the third set of their fourth-round tie to reach the last eight but the Dane was called on to recover from a blip in the second as Petrova forced a decider.
Petrova won just two points on second serve as she fell apart in the third set, and Wozniacki showed her class to come through and win 6-3 3-6 6-0.
"It was a match where it just went up and down quite a bit, and you didn't really know what to expect," said Wozniacki.
"It was not really a great rhythm there. I didn't feel the ball as well. But I'm just happy that I fought through and I won the match. That's the most important thing.
"I just think that I will be more ready for the next match."
That next match will be against Zheng Jie, a 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7/1) winner over Alicia Molik of Austria.
Zheng needed two hours and 25 minutes to get past her unseeded opponent.
"Last time I played against Zheng I lost to her," Wozniacki added on http://www.bnpparibasopen.org.
"It was a tough match. She's a great player. She had a good start of the year, playing aggressively, taking the balls early. I need to be ready and focused."
There were routine straight-sets wins for the fourth and fifth seeds, Elena Dementieva and Agnieszka Radwanska, who will meet in the last eight.
Dementieva beat 19th seed Aravane Rezai 6-3 6-3, while Poland's Radwanska beat another Frenchwoman, Marion Bartoli, 6-3 6-2.
Sixth seed Jelena Jankovic of Serbia is through after she crushed the 17th-seeded Shahar Peer 6-2 6-2, while eighth seed Samantha Stosur beat Vera Zvonareva 6-2 7-5.
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, the 28th seed, defeated 13th-seeded Belgian Yanina Wickmayer 6-4 6-4.
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