Wimbledon: Excellent Navarro stuns Osaka to move into third round

American Emma Navarro, the No 19 seed, reached the third round of Wimbledon by winning against Japanese wildcard Naomi Osaka 6-4, 6-1 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

The result came as a shock, with Osaka many people’s pick as an outside chance at the title this year. She had picked up several grass wins in the lead-in to Wimbledon, and cracked the world’s top 100 again after winning in the first round.

“I don’t think it was the greatest from my end. But I was very grateful to play on Centre Court,” said Osaka after the match.

Osaka expands on loss

“I feel like even though in the beginning it was kind of like we were trading games, I don’t know why, I didn’t feel fully confident in myself,” Osaka continued. “I didn’t feel like I was playing that well. 

“I guess those doubts started trickling in a lot into my game. Obviously the second set wasn’t that great. I don’t know why those thoughts were so prevalent, yeah.”

Next up, Osaka will head back to clay to begin her Olympics preparations.

“Since I’m out so early, I really want to take the time and train for the Olympics because I do want to do well. 

“I do know that my last clay court match was really good. So I might end up liking that surface a lot more than grass now.”

Navarro, meanwhile, will face the winner of the match between American Sloane Stephens and Russian Diana Shnaider next.

Ahead of her victory, the American beat Chinese Qiang Wang (6-0, 6-2).

London (Grand Slam), other second-round results (All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, grass, GBP 50.000.000, most recent results first):

• Iga Swiatek vs. Petra Martic
• Katie Boulter vs. Harriet Dart
• Yafan Wang vs. Madison Keys
• Marta Kostyuk vs. Daria Saville
• Xinyu Wang vs. Jessica Pegula
• Jule Niemeier vs. Elina Svitolina
• Ons Jabeur vs. Robin Montgomery
• Elina Avanesyan vs. Liudmila Samsonova
• Anna Kalinskaya vs. Marie Bouzkova
• Caroline Wozniacki vs. Leylah Fernandez
• Elena Rybakina vs. Laura Siegemund
• Cristina Bucsa vs. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro
• Barbora Krejcikova vs. Katie Volynets
• Camila Osorio vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
• Danielle Collins vs. Dalma Galfi
• Daria Snigur vs. Jelena Ostapenko
• Caroline Garcia vs. Bernarda Pera
• Yulia Putintseva vs. Katerina Siniakova
• Jasmine Paolini vs. Greet Minnen
• Lulu Sun vs. Yulia Starodubtseva
• Dayana Yastremska vs. Varvara Gracheva
• Daria Kasatkina vs. Yuriko Lily Miyazaki
• Donna Vekic vs. Erika Andreeva
• Paula Badosa vs. Brenda Fruhvirtova
• Lin Zhu vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova: wednesday
• Arantxa Rus vs. Maria Sakkari: wednesday
• Sloane Stephens vs. Diana Shnaider: wednesday
• Emma Raducanu (WC) beat Elise Mertens: 6-1, 6-2
• Bianca Andreescu beat Linda Noskova (26): 6-3, 7-6 (5)
• Coco Gauff (2) beat Anca Todoni (Q): 6-2, 6-1
• Sonay Kartal (Q) beat Clara Burel: 6-3, 5-7, 6-3