World number four Naomi Osaka showed no signs of fatigue as she powered past Bel...
Tennis - Pan Pacific Open Women's Singles Semi-final match - Utsubo Tennis Center, Osaka, Japan - September 21, 2019. Japan's Naomi Osaka celebrates after winning the match. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Osaka was forced to double up after persistent showers had washed out her quarter-final against Yulia Putintseva on Friday and the top seed outclassed her Kazakh opponent 6-4 6-4 to advance to the semi-finals in Osaka, Japan. “It’s been kind of rough like the past couple of months so I’m really glad that I made it to the final,” Osaka, who sacked coach Jermaine Jenkins after a disappointing U.S. Open title defense, told reporters.
“The two matches I played, they were so different from each other. Against Yulia, there were more long rallies and against Mertens, it was more serve-reliant.”
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