The three Aussie women left in the draw were bundled out at the quarter-final stage on Friday.

Young gun Lizette Cabrera pushed tournament favourite Risa Ozaki all the way, but fell in a three-set thriller.

Ozaki, the number one seed, looked good in winning the first set 6-2, but Cabrera bounced back strongly to claim the second set 6-4.

Ozaki looked set to cruise through the final set when she opened up a 4-1 lead, but Cabrera had other ideas.

She broke back  to get the score back to 4-3. However, Ozaki steadied to reel off the next three games and win the match.

Ozaki will now play the surprise packet of the tournament – Papua New Guinea’s Abigail Tere-Apisah.

Tere-Apisah, who had to come through qualifying to make the main draw, defeated Australian youngster Naiktha Bains 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals.

Bains started strongly to lead 3-1 in the first set, but Tere-Apisah lifted her intensity and put pressure on Bains’ serve.

PNG’s highest rated player won five of the next six games to win the first set 6-4.

Tere-Apisah carried that momentum into the second set. She broke Bains’ opening service game and never looked back.

Second seed Ausia Muhammad advanced to the last four after defeating Australia’s Tammi Patterson 6-3, 7-5.

It was a similar tale to Bains’ match, with Patterson starting strongly only to see her opponent take control.

From 2-0 down, Muhammad won six of the next seven games to take the first set.

The second set was a much tighter affair and it took Muhammad to break Patterson’s serve in the 12th game to clinch the set and match.

Muhammad will play Thailand’s Varatchaya Wongteanchai in the semi-finals. Wongteanchai was too consistent for Great Britain’s Katy Dunne 6-3, 6-3 in their quarter-final clash.

The Muhammad versus Wongteanchai semi-final is first-up on Saturday at 10am, with the Ozaki versus Tere-Apisah match to follow. Sunday’s final starts at noon.