Naomi Osaka has gotten her revenge over Caroline Garcia and clinched her first Australian Open win since 2022 after beating the Frenchwoman 6-3 3-6 6-3 in a match that completed 20 minutes previous midnight in Melbourne.
Final yr, the Japanese returned to Melbourne Park as a mother and suffered a first-round loss to the previous world No. 4.
Later in her press, Osaka did not disguise that she was very pissed off with the defeat.
This yr, she drew the identical opponent – in the identical stage – once more.
However this time, Osaka was the one who ended on the profitable aspect after firing seven aces and 25 winners, in addition to changing 4 of her six break level possibilities.
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All through the match, it was an excellent battle. Even within the third set, there wasn’t a lot separating the 2 however the one distinction was that the previous world No. 1 got here up large in the important thing moments and realized her possibilities.
Now, the four-time Grand Slam champion is about for a really robust check as she performs subsequent in opposition to 2023 French Open runner-up Karolina Muchova.
How Osaka beat Garcia?
Within the first set, the two-time Australian Open champion went 2-of-2 on her break factors within the fifth and ninth video games and that was sufficient for her to seal the opener.
After profitable the primary set, the Japanese had two consecutive sport factors within the first sport of the second set however then hit a double fault – made some errors – and ended up dropping her serve for the primary time.
That modified the rhythm of the match as Garcia stabilized and went on to pressure a decider after amassing one other break within the ninth sport.
Nevertheless, Osaka was in a position to reply and stop the Frenchwoman from finishing a comeback win after breaking the 31-year-old twice within the third set.
Whereas the Japanese claimed two breaks and did not lose any of her service video games within the decider, it must be famous that Garcia had a complete of 4 break factors throughout two video games however the four-time Grand Slam winner saved it.
