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Naomi Osaka stunned in Round 2 at Madrid
Updated On: 03 May, 2021 07:29 AM IST | Madrid | AFP
Playing her first clay-court event since the 2019 French Open, Osaka beat compatriot Misaki Doi in the first round, but she came unstuck against an opponent making her top 20 debut this week
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Naomi Osaka during her match against Karolina Muchova yesterday. Pics/Getty Images
Naomi Osaka suffered a second-round exit at the Madrid Open on Sunday as the Japanese second seed lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 to Karolina Muchova. Osaka, the reigning US and Australian Open champion, has seven career hard-court titles, but has never managed to lift a clay-court trophy. Playing her first clay-court event since the 2019 French Open, Osaka beat compatriot Misaki Doi in the first round, but she came unstuck against an opponent making her top 20 debut this week. "I was ready to play with all I had today, and to use all the weapons I could," Muchova said.
"I`m definitely happy it worked out." Muchova beat three top 20 players, including world number one Ashleigh Barty, en route to the Australian Open semi-finals earlier this year and she can now add world number two Osaka to her growing list of scalps. "I was trying to move her as much as possible," Muchova said. "That was the tactic. It sounds easy but she`s playing really fast so it`s not that easy on the court. "In the second set especially, she started to be very aggressive. I got back to what I did in the first set in the third set, and again, tried to move her left, right, dropshots, but still in a fast way."
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