Naomi Osaka on Wednesday entered the quarter-finals at the Gippsland Trophy after securing a 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 win over Great Britain’s Katie Boulter, thus stretching her unbeaten run to 13 matches.
“After I lost the first set… I wanted to fight as hard as I can. She was playing really amazing, so I thought that if I lost at the end of the day, it’s okay, but I just wanted to give my best effort,” the WTA website quoted Osaka as saying on-court after the match.
“I like playing long matches because I feel like I can gauge the condition of the court and that my fitness gets better. I played a short match yesterday, so maybe subconsciously, I felt like I needed to play a long match today,” she added.
Third seed Elina Svitolina also reached the last eight after overcoming former French Open champion and No.13 seed Jelena Ostapenko, 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-2, in a match that lasted two hour and 12 minutes.
“It was a bit windy and it was really tough to find the rhythm, and it’s not easy to play against her because she’s going for a lot of shots and you have to really be on your toes,” Svitolina said.
“I was a bit flat in the first set and I wasn’t happy with the way I started. Afterwards, I was just trying to make an extra ball back and tried to make a difference on the balls I had a chance on,” she added.
Svitolina will take on seventh seed Elise Mertens, who defeated Caroline Garcia, 7-6(1), 6-3.
Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has been in the public eye for years as…
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office has delayed Cabinet votes on the deal with Hamas amid…
The court directed that the records of the case, which are in Gujarati, be translated…
A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was poached in Similipal Tiger Reserve, one of the last…
More than 400 Washington Post journalists have raised alarm about the paper's leadership and future.…
In recent years, growing concerns have emerged about the impact of modern diets on children’s…