 The top seed looked inconsistent throughout the whole match
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Top seed Ana Ivanovic had her serve broken five times as she lost to Amelie Mauresmo in the Brisbane International.
Former Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Mauresmo dropped serve just once on her way to a 6-3 6-2 quarter-final victory.
Mauresmo's first break of serve gave her a vital 5-3 lead in the first set.
Ivanovic recovered from a second set break before Mauresmo rattled off four games in a row to secure her sixth win in eight matches against the Serbian.
The fifth seed will now play Marion Bartoli or Italy's Tathiana Garbin in the semi-final.
Earlier, second seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus lost three of her first four service games before turning things round to beat Lucie Safarova 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.
In the men's draw, third seed Fernando Verdasco came from a set down to beat Florent Serra 4-6 6-0 6-3.
Verdasco dropped serve in the ninth game but bounced back well to take the second set in just 26 minutes.
He saved break point at 30-40 in the fifth game of the third set and from that point wasted little time in wrapping up the win.
His semi-final opponent will be either 19-year-old Japanese player Kei Nishikori or Paul-Henri Mathieu.
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