The top 36 advanced to the second phase, while the other fencers were eliminated.

The second phase was a modified, truncated double-elimination tournament.

The repechages (but not the main brackets) used a complicated reseeding mechanism.

Zalaffi won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.

Bau won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.

Lazăr-Szabo won the bracket, advancing to the quarterfinals.

For example, original seed #1 Stefanek was reseeded as #9 because she was the top-seeded fencer who had advanced through the repechage qualifiers.

Original seeds are shown in parentheses in the brackets.

Seeds 1–4 were given to round 8 losers, based on their original seeds (excluding adjustments to avoid having multiple fencers from the same nation in a bracket, which affected Köves and Nolte).