Tokyo Olympics: Home favourite Naomi Osaka loses in straight sets to Marketa

Fourtime Grand Slam champion Naomi Osakas run at the Tokyo Olympic Games came to an end with the Japanese star losing to 2019 French Open runnerup Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic 61 64 in the third round on TuesdayWith Naomis exit the top three players on the WTA singles rankings at the Olympics have all bowed out of the quadrennial showpieceWhile Australias world No 1 Ashleigh Barty had lost to Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain in the opening match No 3 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus fell to Croatias Donna Vekic in the second round on Monday and now world No 2 Naomi has lost in the third roundWith No 4 Sofia Kenin of the US and No 5 Bianca Andreescu of Canada not competing here No 6ranked Elina Svitolina of Ukraine is now the highestranked player left in the drawMarketa took a 40 lead with a double break and finished the opening set in 24 minutes But Naomi looked like she was warming up for the second set when she broke in the first game of the second set and then held for a 20 lead But Marketa broke back for 2all and broke the Japanese one more time in the last game of the match to snuff out Naomis challengeThe Czech player finished the match with just 10 unforced errors to Naomis 32Meanwhile there were upsets galore in late evening matches on Monday at the Ariake Tennis Park as Spains Paula Badosa Belgiums Alison Van Uytvanck and Donna Vekic pf Croatia took out a trio of top10 seeds to reach the third round at the OlympicsPaula took out No 6 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland 63 764 while Alison and Donna beat No 10 seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic and No 3 seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus respectivelyBelgiums Alison came from a set down to beat world No13 Petra 57 63 60 by winning the last 10 games It was the 27yearolds first win over a top20 player in over three years dating back to a victory over thendefending champion Garbine Muguruza of Spain at the Wimbledon in 2018 Shell have a rematch with the Spaniard in the next roundShes Petra a legend in our sport Alison was quoted as saying by ITF Shes an absolute great player and its an honour to share the court with her thats what I told her at the net I think what she has done for womens tennis is incredibleI hope that I can maybe some day achieve the same things she has achieved Im proud of myself with what I did on court today and the level I reachedAlso Read Yadav Sr to son Surya Be our Mr Cricket like Hussey was to OzThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever