Naomi Osaka Starts Australian Open With a Win. – Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka opened her 2022 season with a win. The win ended with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 points over Alize Cornet. This was the inaugural match of the Australian Open, one of the Summer Set tournaments in Melbourne.
Naomi Osaka Starts Australian Open With a Win
Osaka returned to Rod Laver Arena for the first time since winning the Australian Open title in February. It was also the first match of Leylah Fernandez’s third-round match at the US Open in September.
He took time off early last year a health problem that started when he started at the French Open before his second-round match. He also missed Wimbledon, then returned to the Tokyo Olympics. Where the cauldron survived the opening of the opening.
Osaka said she set one main goal for this year, and that was to enjoy the game. After spending time with friends and family, he slowly began to regain his love for the game of tennis. Travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic have kept events at Down Under congested before the Australian Open kicks off on January 17.
I’m the type of person who cares too much about results and rankings I need to find a way to enjoy the game again because that’s the reason I played the game in the first place,” he said.
There are three events being played this week in Melbourne as part of the Australian Tennis Summer tournament. Two WTA tournaments and one ATP. In Adelaide, there are ATP and WTA tournaments together this week. The ATP Cup is being played in Sydney. In another match, Jessica Pegula, seeded in another women’s Summer Set tournament in Melbourne, lost to Irina-Camelia Begu 7-6 (6), 6-3 in the first round.
Other Match Results
Pegula, who reached the quarter-finals at last year’s Australian Open, led 5-3 and scored points before coming back for a victory. At the men’s tournament in Melbourne, Facundo Bagnis beat the former number one Andy Murray 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, saving 11 of 13 break points. He will next face third seed, Grigor Dimitrov. Murray, a five-time finalist at the Australian Open, received a wild-card entry to play in the main tournament this season.
In Adelaide, 2020 French Open champion Iga Swiatek opened his title defense at the Adelaide International with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Daria Saville, who was known as Daria Gavrilova before her recent marriage.
In previous matches, American teenager Coco Gauff beat Norway’s Ulrikke Eikeri 6-2, 6-1. Thus to set up a second match against top-ranked Ash Barty, 2020 Australian Open Champion. Sofia Kenin beat Lucia Bronzetti 7-5, 7-5, and Anastasia Gasanova defeated eighth seed Elina Svitolina 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.
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