<p class="title">Two of the most exciting talents in tennis will meet for the first time on Friday when Naomi Osaka and Bianca Andreescu clash in the China Open quarter-finals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On the eve of what could be the start of a long rivalry, the 21-year-old Osaka called the 19-year-old Canadian "an amazing player" and said "I have to learn from her".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Japanese, on the upswing after a slump following her triumph at the Australian Open at the start of the year, smiled: "I'm older than her, very much so.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I noticed that she seems to be very... just focused."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Osaka, yet to drop a set in three matches in Beijing and fresh from winning the Pan Pacific Open in Japan, earned her place in the last eight in style.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two-time Grand Slam champion said she was "angry relaxed" after a dominant 6-4, 6-0, win over unseeded American Alison Riske.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Osaka, the world number four, reeled off 10 games in a row to seal victory.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm relaxed, but I'm a little bit angry, it's an angry relaxed," said Osaka when asked what was behind her recent success in Japan and now China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I know after Australia I was like, 'I'm going to have fun'. It was not fun, I did not have fun," she said, referring to her dip in form.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Andreescu, ranked sixth and playing her first tournament since stunning Serena Williams in the final at Flushing Meadows, thrashed American qualifier Jennifer Brady.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The teenager, who is on a roll of 16 wins on the trot, started with intent, breaking Brady's first service game on the way to a brutal 6-1, 6-3 win in 68 minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also into the last eight in hot and hazy Beijing was reigning champion Caroline Wozniacki, a former world number one. She faces Russia's Daria Kasatkina.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also in action on Friday is current women's number one Ashleigh Barty of Australia, who plays the seventh seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the men's draw, the title-holder Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia was on course to pull off a surprise against Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the 21-year-old Tsitsipas, ranked seventh, came back to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and will play big-serving John Isner of the United States in the quarter-finals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Isner sent down 21 aces in defeating Britain's Dan Evans in two sets.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also on Friday, former number one Andy Murray steps up his return from a career-saving hip operation when he plays top seed Dominic Thiem.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is the three-time Grand Slam champion's first ATP singles quarter-final for a year.</p>
<p class="title">Two of the most exciting talents in tennis will meet for the first time on Friday when Naomi Osaka and Bianca Andreescu clash in the China Open quarter-finals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">On the eve of what could be the start of a long rivalry, the 21-year-old Osaka called the 19-year-old Canadian "an amazing player" and said "I have to learn from her".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Japanese, on the upswing after a slump following her triumph at the Australian Open at the start of the year, smiled: "I'm older than her, very much so.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I noticed that she seems to be very... just focused."</p>.<p class="bodytext">Osaka, yet to drop a set in three matches in Beijing and fresh from winning the Pan Pacific Open in Japan, earned her place in the last eight in style.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The two-time Grand Slam champion said she was "angry relaxed" after a dominant 6-4, 6-0, win over unseeded American Alison Riske.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Osaka, the world number four, reeled off 10 games in a row to seal victory.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I'm relaxed, but I'm a little bit angry, it's an angry relaxed," said Osaka when asked what was behind her recent success in Japan and now China.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I know after Australia I was like, 'I'm going to have fun'. It was not fun, I did not have fun," she said, referring to her dip in form.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Andreescu, ranked sixth and playing her first tournament since stunning Serena Williams in the final at Flushing Meadows, thrashed American qualifier Jennifer Brady.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The teenager, who is on a roll of 16 wins on the trot, started with intent, breaking Brady's first service game on the way to a brutal 6-1, 6-3 win in 68 minutes.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also into the last eight in hot and hazy Beijing was reigning champion Caroline Wozniacki, a former world number one. She faces Russia's Daria Kasatkina.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also in action on Friday is current women's number one Ashleigh Barty of Australia, who plays the seventh seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the men's draw, the title-holder Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia was on course to pull off a surprise against Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece.</p>.<p class="bodytext">But the 21-year-old Tsitsipas, ranked seventh, came back to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and will play big-serving John Isner of the United States in the quarter-finals.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Isner sent down 21 aces in defeating Britain's Dan Evans in two sets.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also on Friday, former number one Andy Murray steps up his return from a career-saving hip operation when he plays top seed Dominic Thiem.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It is the three-time Grand Slam champion's first ATP singles quarter-final for a year.</p>