It's all change at the top as Alberta Santucci was beaten 15-6 by countrywoman Camilla Batini. There was a further upset when Katharine Holmes of the USA took out Russian Yulia Bakhareva 10-9 in overtime.
The Topic/Marniak match up looked to be heading for a reasonably comfortable win for the Croatian at 14-8 up, but the Israeli had other ideas and brought it back to 14-13 and pushed the fight into the final period. The equaliser never came though and the Tonic took the victory 15-13. Also having a tougher time of it was Angi Xu (CHN) who beat Erika Kirpu (EST) 15-13. Things were easier for Yujie Sun and Gaia Fratini who ran out 15-2 and 15-4 winners respectively.
Bring on the quarters!
Photo courtesy of Denise Wilson