China Open: Incredible comeback from Osaka to reach third round
Naomi Osaka beat Yulia Putintseva 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday and will face American Katie Volynets in the next round
Naomi Osaka in Beijing (Imago/Panoramic)
Japanese Naomi Osaka reached the third round of the China Open by beating Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, the No 21 seed, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 at the National Tennis Center in Beijing on Friday.
Osaka, ranked No 73, will face American Katie Volynets next.
With new coach Patrick Mouratoglou looking on, she broke an unwanted 22-match streak – losing every match at WTA level after losing the first set – including Olympics and team events.
Ahead of her victory, the Japanese won against Italian Lucia Bronzetti (6-3, 6-2).
Beijing WTA 1000, other second-round results (National Tennis Center, hard, USD 8.955.610, most recent results first):
- Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Qinwen Zheng
- Viktorija Golubic vs. Donna Vekic
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Irina-Camelia Begu
- Madison Keys vs. Sara Sorribes Tormo
- Yue Yuan vs. Karolina Muchova
- Ashlyn Krueger vs. Lulu Sun
- Dayana Yastremska vs. Nadia Podoroska
- Camila Osorio vs. Amanda Anisimova
- Jaqueline Cristian vs. Barbora Krejcikova
- Sijia Wei vs. Beatriz Haddad Maia
- Aryna Sabalenka vs. Mananchaya Sawangkaew
- Daria Kasatkina vs. Jana Fett
- Moyuka Uchijima vs. Magda Linette
- Jasmine Paolini vs. Clara Tauson
- Elisabetta Cocciaretto vs. Elise Mertens
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Cristina Bucsa
- Clara Burel vs. Coco Gauff
- Magdalena Frech vs. Alycia Parks
- Rebecca Sramkova vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova: friday
- Jessica Pegula (2) beat Diane Parry: 6-1, 7-6 (4)
- Katie Volynets beat Marta Kostyuk (14): 7-5, 6-3
- Peyton Stearns beat Leylah Fernandez (20): 7-5, 6-2
- Elina Avanesyan beat Caroline Dolehide (33): 6-3, 5-7, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (15) beat Viktoriya Tomova: 6-3, 6-2
- Anna Kalinskaya (10) beat Hailey Baptiste (Q): 3-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5)
- Veronika Kudermetova (32) beat Xinyu Wang: 3-6, 6-4, 7-5
- Katie Boulter (26) beat Taylor Townsend: 6-4, 6-4
- Diana Shnaider (12) beat Sofia Kenin: 6-2, 6-3
- Shuai Zhang (WC) beat Emma Navarro (6): 6-4, 6-2
- Greet Minnen beat Anastasia Potapova (28): 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
- Yuliia Starodubtseva (Q) beat Katerina Siniakova (27): 6-2, 6-2
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