Naomi Osaka wins against Yulia Putintseva 6-4 6-4 in the quarter in Osaka on Saturday. Osaka will have to play Elise Mertens in the semifinal.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Osaka started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Putintseva in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, the set was not over yet and there was more work to do for Osaka to win the set as the Kazakhstani found the way to break back in the 7th (2-5) and in the 9th (4-5) game. Naomi kept her focus to break Yulia in the 10th (6-4) game.
Naomi failed to serve out the set when leading 5-1 to be broken at 0.
2nd set.
Putintseva was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Osaka in the 1st game (1-0). Yet, Naomi managed to stage a great comeback to break Yulia 3 times in the 2nd (1-1), in the 4th (3-1) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
A crucial moment of the match was when Naomi won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
Statistics
After this match, the head to head between Osaka and Putintseva is 1-3 for Yulia.
Next Match: Naomi Osaka vs. Elise Mertens – stats
Osaka will square off with Mertens in the semifinal.
This will be the 2nd time that Naomi Osaka and Elise Mertens square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Mertens won 6-4 1-6 6-4 in the 1st round in Wuhan back in 2017.
Tennis Scores in Osaka
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Angelique KerberKerber – Madison KeysKeys (6-4 4-6 2-1 ret.) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-4 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Misaki DoiDoi – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-0) – See H2H details
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – See H2H details
