Peng Shuai, who made history by reaching quarter-finals of the China Open WTA tennis tournament on Wednesday, said she's eager to win on home soil and that made her intimated more by the tense of the game.

"When I heard my opponent talked to the chaired umpire that 'thepeople here don't know tennis', I felt so embarrassed and got even more eager to win in front of the home fans," said the highest ranked female player of China who beat Argentina's Mariana Diaz-Oliva Wednesday afternoon to join the last eight of the 585,000 US dollars hardcourt event.

With the 3-6, 6-2, 7-6(0) victory, Peng, 19, has become the first Chinese reaching the quarters in the brief history of China Open, which initiated 12 months ago at the capital city of China.

Leading as much as 4-1 in the third set, Peng, whose giant-killing run had brought top Russian players Anastasia Myskina and Nadia Petrova en route to her first career Tour semi-finals as a qualifier in Sydney last January, was broken back twice by the 29-year-old Diaz-Oliva to tie on 4-4 before forcing a tiebreaker and winning it 7-0.

The teenager took nothing to blame for her sudden running out ofgear in the decider, but said that "the more I want to win, the more I aware of my nerve and the more unforced errors came out of me."

"I told myself that I could never say die and must win the match since the Argentine said that bad words towards my compatriots, but that made me even more nervous," said Peng.

"How to turn over the court from trailing is what I have to learn now," added the native of Hunan province of China who currently lives in the United States for tennis training.

Peng said the sunshine had troubled her a little at the beginning of the match as she gave up the first set 6-3 in ease.

"I had some troubles in sight of catching the balls since the sunshine are so strong and my former matches had been played in evening," she said.

As the first Chinese reaching the quarters at China Open, Peng said she's quite happy to be the one but also felt the pressure.

Later on Wednesday night, Peng will play a first-round doubles match pairing with fellow Chinese Li Na, who was ousted Tuesday from the women's singles event.

"There're couple of hours for me to rest before the doubles matchup getting underway, and I think it's enough for me to recoverfrom a thrilling full-set win in singles. Also I trust in Li Na and hold confident for us to play great tennis tonight," said Peng.

Source: Xinhua