TAIPEI CITY, Chinese Taipei - Germany's Sabine Lisicki knocked eighth seed Misaki Doi out of the Taipei Open, defeating her 6-3, 6-2 to move into the Round of 16.

The 29-year-old produced a superlative match on serve, with ten aces, and a winning percentage of 86 per cent on her first serve - and 73 per cent on her second.

The other seeds in action today fared better than Doi. Fourth seed Zhu Lin beat Jil Teichmann 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, and sixth seed Vitalia Diatchenko beat Priscilla Hon 6-2, 6-4.

Elsewhere, Valentini Grammatikopoulou beat Kwan Yau Ng 6-2, 6-2, Danka Kovinic beat Zhang Ling 6-3, 6-1, Liang En-shuo beat Barbara Haas 3-6, 6-0, 6-3, Zhang Yuxuan beat Lu Jiajin 6-3, 6-2, and Elena Rybakina beat Magdalena Frech 6-4, 6-3.