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The 23-year-old Japanese, who has three trophies from the Big Cross tournaments in his country, has found himself in unenviable situations several times in the eighth final match.
After losing the first hand 4: 6, Osaka immediately fell 0: 2 in the second set, but eventually adjusted her goal and snatched the deciding hand from her.
However, then G. Muguruza, the owner of two “Great Accent” titles, raised his level of play to new heights. match point leader 5: 3.
After passing, N. Osaka saved them, and then made a decisive round by passing them to the opponent. The Japanese quickly leveled the score and soon celebrated victory by winning the last four games.
It was already the 18th consecutive victory for a tennis player.
Interestingly, the statistics say that Osaka shouldn’t stand in the way of this tournament: All three times in her career, when the tennis player reached at least the Big Cross quarter-finals, she won those tournaments, including triumph in Melbourne in 2019.
Muguruza played in the Australian Open final last year, but will not lose points this year due to the change in the qualifying system.
In the quarterfinals, N. Osaka will fight with another tennis player from the Asian continent: the representative of Taiwan Su-Wei Hsieh (WTA-71), who sensationally kicked the Czech market Vondrousov (WTA-20) 6: 4, 6: 2 in the final eighth.
SW.Hsieh, 35, became the best tennis player in the Open Era period and came to Big Cross for the first time.
Serena Williams (WTA-11) was among the eight strongest tennis players at the Australian Open, beating Belarusian Arynas Sabalenka (WTA-7) 6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 4.
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