On Saturday, around 19:00, he was to start game Magda Linette (34. Wt) with Czech Linda Fruhvirtova (215. WTA) at the 4th round tournament WTA 100 on hard courts in Miami. Ultimately, however, this did not happen and the start of this meeting was extended by over two hours. This is the result of the fact that Naomi played on the Butch Kuven Osaka (Japan, 61. WTA) and Hailey Baptiste (USA, 98. WTA) and fought an exciting spectacle!
Magda Linette is waiting for the match, and here an unbelievable thriller in Miami!
The first set lasted an hour, 11 minutes and ended in a tie-break. Earlier, Baptiste did not take advantage of the good opportunity to win the party. In 11. Gemie after playing for advantage she broke the Osaka and served for victory. In the 12th game, however, she lost its application and it was 6: 6. In a tie-break, the Japanese was losing 5: 6, but from that moment she scored three points in a row and won the set.
In the second batch of Osaka led 2: 0 and from that moment she lost four games in a row! Then she was unable to make up for the losses and a decisive set took place. He was better started by Baptiste, who broke the Japanese in the fifth game and led 3: 2.
At 4: 3, there was a game for her. At the second balance, Osaka first played a great vine from the form after a cross, and after a while the American went to the net and played the ball with a volley terribly, throwing the ball a few meters on the car.
Osaka followed the blow and in a moment won her service game to zero and had two aces in it. In the 10th game there were great emotions again. At the second balance, the Japanese played a beautiful Winner from Bekhend along the line. At the second match football, she showed up with a wonderful return from Bekhend after Cross. The duel lasted three hours and two minutes.
The Japanese in this match won only two points more (112-110). She also had more aces (13-9) and slightly better effectiveness of points won after the first (69-67 percent) and the second application (51-48 %).
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Osaka in the 1/8 finals will face Italian Jasmine Paoloni (7. WTA).