Japanese Naomi Osaka made an impressive return to the native land court in Tokyo after earning the title of the US Open Tennis Championship earlier this month. Undertaker Osaka 3-2 won 6:2, 6:1 over Dominica Cibulkova (Slovenia) and qualified for the quarterfinals of the Pan Pacific with a prize pool of 799, 000 dollars.
The 20-year-old host, finalist in the 2016 race, started a series of four consecutive games mentioned by blog of sport predictions and dominated the end by placing 25 winnings and making only nine unforced errors.
So Osaka, which became the first Japanese Grand Slam title, is expecting the winner of the match between Barbora Strizova (Czech Republic) and Annette Contaweit (Estonia). Last season`s Flashing Meadows Champion and No. 5 Sloane Stevens (USA) fell in the first round after Croatian defeat Donna Vekic with 4:6, 4:6.
Alison Risk (USA) surprised the sixth in the scheme Garbine Mugurusa (Spain) and qualified for the quarterfinals after a definite success with 6:1, 6:2. The next rival of Risk will be another former number 1 in the world rankings Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic). Fourth placed Pyshkova turned in the second round Daria Gavrilova (Australia) with 4:6, 6:4, 6:4.
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