TENNIS SCORES. Osaka overcomes Hsieh in the 3rd round in Cincinnati

Naomi Osaka beats Su-Wei Hsieh 7-6³ 5-7 6-2 in the 3^rd round in Cincinnati on Thursday. Osaka will engage against Sofia Kenin in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Hsieh had a pretty good kick start of the set after breaking Osaka in the 1^st game (1-0). Yet, Osaka found the way to come back to break Su-Wei in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 10^th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 3.

2^nd set.

The Chinese won the set after she broke Osaka in the 4^th (3-1) and in the 12^th (7-5) game. Osaka tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 5^th (3-2) game. Anyhow, Hsieh kept the situation under control before winning the set 7-5.

3^rd set.

The Japanese in this set played at a much higher level than the Chinese and therefore she won 6-2 after breaking Hsieh in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 5^th (4-1) game.

A crucial moment of the match was when Osaka won 5 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Osaka scored 107 points vs. Su-Wei’s 105 points.

Naomi blasted 15 aces without committing any double fault. The Japanese was pretty focused in converting 56% of the break points that she procured (5/9). On the other side, Su-Wei was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 25% of her break points (4/16). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this match, the head to head between Osaka and Hsieh is 3-1 for Naomi.

Highlights Naomi Osaka vs. Su-Wei Hsieh Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati

Next Match: Naomi Osaka vs. Sofia Kenin – stats

Osaka will play Kenin in the quarter.

This will be the 2^nd time that Naomi Osaka and Sofia Kenin square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Osaka (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.

The last time that they played each other, Osaka won 6-2 7-5 in the 1^st round in Paris back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Karolina PliskovaKarolina – Rebecca PetersonRebecca (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana – Sloane StephensSloane (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyAshleigh – Anett KontaveitAnett (4-6 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsVenus – Donna VekicDonna (2-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Madison KeysMadison – Simona HalepSimona (6-1 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninSofia – Elina SvitolinaElina (6-3 7-6³) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaNaomi – Su-Wei HsiehSu-Wei (7-6³ 5-7 6-2) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariMaria – Aryna SabalenkaAryna (6-7⁴ 6-4 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyAshleigh – Maria SakkariMaria (1-1) – See H2H details
• Karolina PliskovaKarolina – Svetlana KuznetsovaSvetlana (2-2) – See H2H details
• Venus WilliamsVenus – Madison KeysMadison (2-2) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninSofia – Naomi OsakaNaomi (0-1) – See H2H details