Maria Sharapova reaches quarters

— -- MELBOURNE, Australia -- Second-seeded Maria Sharapova is through to the Australian Open quarterfinals after a 6-3, 6-0 win over China's Peng Shuai on Sunday, setting up another Grand Slam meeting with Eugenie Bouchard.

Peng, playing with her usual two-handed forehand and backhand strokes, broke Sharapova's serve on her fifth break-point chance in the seventh game. But Sharapova won the next two games to take the first set in 39 minutes before dominating the second.

Sharapova plays Bouchard in the quarterfinals, a replay of their French Open semifinal last year. Sharapova won that match, after dropped the opening set to the Canadian, on the way to winning the title.

Sharapova also beat Bouchard in the second round of the French in 2013, and has a 3-0 career record against her.

Bouchard returns to the Australian Open quarterfinals with a win that was far from routine. The 20-year-old Canadian, who reached the semifinals or better at the first three Grand Slam tournaments last year, won nine of the first 10 games in her fourth-round match against Irina-Camelia Begu, but lost seven of the next nine to be pushed to a third set for the first time in the tournament.

After serving double-fault on set point to end the second, Bouchard took a short break before returning to complete a 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 win against the No. 42-ranked Begu, who had taken out No. 9-seeded Angelique Kerber in the first round.

"I gave myself a good, long hard look in the mirror," Bouchard explained of her brief absence from Rod Laver Arena. "I said, 'Genie, this is unacceptable.' I really kind of kicked myself in the butt a little bit."

After three straight-sets wins, Bouchard joked that she went three sets for a couple of reasons.

"Clearly I need more practice!" she said, then turned to the section of fans known as the Genie Army who support her in Australia. "It's not horrible playing longer on this court. I just wanted to do that for you guys, and for them to practice more songs."

In the other quarter, No. 10 Ekaterina Makarova had a 6-3, 6-2 win over Julia Goerges to reach the quarterfinals, where she'll play the winner of a Sunday night match between No. 3 Simona Halep and Yanina Wickmayer.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.