Naomi Osaka has faced a lot in the past two weeks. (APTO Photo / Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
(Associated Press)
For the first time in three years, the world of tennis will see Naomi Osaka in the third round of a Grand Colem.
Wednesday, the double champion of the Australian Open reached the third round of the tournament with an upset victory 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 against the seeded n ° 20 Karolina Muchová. The victory was also a reversal of the pair meeting in the US Open 2024, which Muchová won 6-3, 7-6.
Osaka will face the former player of the Top Five Belinda Bencic in the third round.
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One more victory would be the first appearance of Osaka in a fourth round of the Grand Chelem since its victory at the Australian Open 2021, which looks like a lot more than four years ago. It was the year Osaka took an interruption of tennis after a French open controversy where she said that she would give up the appearances of the media from mental health problems.
Osaka took another interruption after an approximate outing of the US Open that year and still had trouble in 2022. She moved away from tennis to give birth to her daughter in 2023 and had trouble returning to her return last year.
The obstacles continued for Osaka in Melbourne this year. She broke with his daughter's father, rapper Cordae, last week,, Withdraws from its latest development tournament, the Auckland Open, the previous week due to an apparent abdominal issueAnd is currently faced with the prospect of losing your house in the face of forest fires in Los Angeles.
After His victory in the first round over Caroline GarciaShe said she had to send someone to recover her daughter's birth certificate, via Espn::
“Honestly, I don't think I have made the biggest goal, but obviously I won, so I think it's an acceptable work,” Osaka said about the division of her thoughts between Los Angeles and the tournament where she is in competition. “It's really difficult for me … because I find now that my house is more a house because I have memories with my daughter. There are so many things – memories and things like that.”
Despite all that, Osaka took a step before she was waiting for years to take.
