(Tokyo) Naomi Osaka, in her first match since the U.S. Open, advanced to the second round of the Pan Pacific Open when Australia’s Daria Saville dropped out with a knee injury in the second game of their match on Tuesday.
Osaka is the defending champion having won in her hometown of Osaka in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the tournament to be postponed for two years.
“I feel really bad right now because of the way it ended, revealed the Japanese to the fans present at the Ariake Coliseum. I’ve been injured for most of the year so I just want people to applaud her because she’s a really amazing player. »
Osaka, who led 1-0 when Saville retired, had suffered a first-game defeat at all three of her previous tournaments, including the U.S. Open last month, although she reached the final at the Miami tournament in april.
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In other matches, sixth-seeded Karolina Pliskova defeated Bulgarian Isabella Shinikova 6-2, 6-1; Mexico’s Fernanda Contreras Gomez, a qualifier, defeated 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin 7-6 (9-7), 6-4; fifth-seeded Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil beat Japan’s Yuki Naito 6-4, 6-2, and China’s Zhang Shuai beat Japan’s Mai Hontama 6-0, 6-3.
All games were played under a closed roof as the tail of the typhoon Nanmadol was crossing Tokyo.
Pliskova, a former world number one and champion in Tokyo four years ago, had it easy against 214-ranked Shinikovae. The Czech player outplayed her Bulgarian opponent, who had to qualify for the main draw, and said she was back to form after an injury earlier in the year.
“I missed the start of the season because I broke my arm, so I had a slower start to the season, but I feel like in the summer in America I played some very good matches, Pliskova explained. I reached the quarter-finals in New York… so I think I’m in good shape. »
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