BEIJING, Oct. 3 -- On a day where several top seeds fell to lower-ranked opposition, local hero Zhang Shuai delighted her home fans at the China Open here on Wednesday, defeating Hungary's Timea Babos 6-1, 6-2 to book a place in the third round.

In a dominant performance, Zhang started as she meant to go on, racing into an early 3-0 lead in front of a partisan crowd. Babos notably struggled on serve, conceding ten break points in the first set alone.

Zhang raced into a 5-1 lead as an increasingly frustrated Babos started resorting to desperate drop shots in order to disrupt the hometown favorite's rhythm.

In a tense service game, Zhang was able to hold serve and close out the set with a thunderous backhand winner after another poorly executed drop shot from Babos.

The second set began with Babos finding more consistency in her service game. However, her groundstrokes let her down this time, leading to Zhang breaking serve at 2-2.

The Chinese player would not look back, winning three consecutive games to the delight of the home crowd to book a third round tie with Germany's No. 3 seed Angelique Kerber, who won her second round match 7-6, 6-1 against Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro.

In the biggest shock in the men's game, Serbian qualifier Dusan Lajovic beat No. 3 seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. The Bulgarian's service game proved to be erratic, as he struck nine aces but also made nine double faults throughout the match.

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