Naomi Osaka demolishes Katie Volynets 6-3 6-2 in the 3rd round in Beijing on Monday after playing an extraordinary match to come up against Cori Gauff in the 4th round. The Japanese won this tournament once in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Naomi added to her prize money $ 41,900 after winning this match. She has already won $ 101,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Osaka will add $ 84,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 185,000 in total.
Highlights Naomi Osaka vs. Katie Volynets China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
After this encounter, the head to head between Osaka and Volynets is 1-0 for Naomi.
Draw and next match H2H: Naomi Osaka vs. Cori Gauff – stats
Osaka will take on Gauff in the 4th round.
This will be the 5th time that Naomi Osaka and Cori Gauff face off. The head to head is 2-2 for Osaka and Gauff (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Gauff won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in San Jose back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Osaka was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Katie Volynets in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. That was decisive for Osaka to win the set (6-3) as there were no other breaks.
Osaka converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A and 40-A) and the 10th game (6-2 40-A). On the other side, Osaka didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 75 points. Osaka conquered the set after winning 7 more points than Volynets (41-34). Naomi dropped 7 points on serve (21-7). On the other side, Volynets conceded 20 points on serve (27-20).
Osaka in this set was too good for Katie and finally she won 6-2 after breaking the American in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
It is worth noting that a pivotal stage of the set was when Osaka won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 1-1 to 5-1.
Osaka converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A), the 5th (3-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th
game (5-1 30-40). On the other side, Naomi didn’t concede a single break point during this set.They played 44 points. Osaka was the winner of the set after clinching 14 points more than Volynets (29-15). Osaka dropped 5 points on serve (17-5). On the losing side, Katie conceded 12 points on serve (10-12).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-3 6-2)
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Peyton StearnsStearns (3-6 6-3 3-1 ret.)
- Madison KeysKeys – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (6-3 6-3)
- Cori GauffGauff – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-5 6-2)
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (0-6 6-3 6-4)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-79 6-1 6-2)
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-2 6-3)
- Yuliia StarodubtsevaStarodubtseva – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-3 6-1)
- Paula BadosaBadosa – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (7-5 7-5)
Upcoming matches
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- Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Naomi OsakaOsaka – Cori GauffGauff (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-3) – H2H details and stats