The rangy, big-serving Goerges, who climbed to 27th in the rankings following her win against Wozniacki in the Stuttgart final last month, mixed up her game with looping shots and then pounced on any loose balls with some aggressive drives.
Wozniacki, 20, gifted her 22-year-old opponent the decisive break in the eighth game of the third set when she sent the ball wide before Goerges confidently served out to love.
"I did a pretty good match again today and I'm proud of what I have achieved the last few weeks," Goerges, making her debut on the clay in the Spanish capital, said at a news conference.
"I tried to get her out of her rhythm and not let her push me and be the first to push her," she added.
"I like to play higher balls to her backhand especially and if she goes short I have a chance to go for the shots."
Goerges will meet Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Friday's quarter-finals after the unseeded Russian upset Australian fifth seed and 2010 French Open runner-up Samantha Stosur 7-6 6-3.
Ranked 21st, the 19-year-old Pavlyuchenkova is the youngest player in the top 50 and her win over Stosur, the number eight, was her second success against a top-10 player this year.
Stosur also fell to Goerges in Stuttgart and the German attributed her recent success to the hard graft she had been putting in with coach Sascha Nensel.
"You have to keep working and believing in yourself and then you see how it ends up," she said.
"There is nothing to say it will stay like that but I am feeling confident right now," added Goerges, describing herself as an aggressive player and naming former world number one Martina Hingis of Switzerland as her tennis idol.
BLISTERING FORM
Victoria Azarenka continued her blistering form when she crushed Spanish wildcard Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-0 6-3 to set up a quarter-final against Czech Lucie Safarova or Jarmila Gajdosova of Australia.
Belarussian Azarenka, the fourth seed, has dropped only five games in her three matches this week and is chasing a third title of the year following triumphs in Miami and Marbella.
Li Na, losing finalist at this year's Australian Open and the sixth seed, fought back from a set down to beat Italian Roberta Vinci 2-6 6-2 6-1.
The Chinese will play the winner of the match between third seed and French Open champion Francesca Schiavone of Italy and unseeded American Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
Czech 16th seed Petra Kvitova, conqueror of second-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva on Wednesday, and Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova are already due to meet in the last eight.
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