On Wednesday, Naomi Osaka was thrilled from the first round to Indian Wells, falling 6-4, 6-4 at Camila Osorio during the first Japanese star tournament since the injury forced her to leave the Australian Open. The former world number one, Osaka, now classified 56th in the world, looked rusty against the Colombian classified in the 52nd, fighting to find the range on his powerful grounds by a cold night in the Californian desert. “There were some things that felt extremely extinct because I could not start to train after a while and things like that,” said Osaka. “So I think that given the situation, it was not so terrible.
“I don’t feel like I played well, but I was likely to be in the match.”
Osorio, returning to a long rupture of injury itself, challenged Osaka with a range of falls and slices and won the only breakdown of the opening for an advance of 5-4.
She served it without a hitch, then broke Osaka to open the second.
The Japanese star immediately broke, but Osorio won the upper hand with a break in the seventh game. After Osaka fought a match point against her own service, Osorio served it, fighting four break points to seal him with a spicy lawyer winner.
“It’s crazy for me, a dream come true,” said Osorio, who withdrew from last week’s event in Merida, Mexico, with an abdominal injury.
She had never won a match at Indian Wells and became the first Colombian to beat a former world number one.
Osaka, who returned from a 15 -month break last year after giving birth to her daughter Shai in 2023, reached her first final since 2022 in Auckland, but withdrew from the title for the title with an abdominal injury.
Back for the Australian Open, she was forced to withdraw from her third -round match with an abdominal strain.
“It looks like a small bump on the road,” said Osaka. “I will be back in Miami and I hope I have a lot more to serve my credit and things like that.”
The double Wimbledon champion, Petra Kvitova, on the track back seven months after giving birth to his son Petr, also fell in the first round.
Varvara Gracheva, the 70th rank of France, beat the Czech 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, but the 24-year-old woman was full of admiration for her 34-year-old opponent, who raised the trophy to Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014.
“If you leave me a little hindsight, I really want to congratulate her,” said Gratcheva. “Because she had a child recently, and I am so happy that she is now having the role of a mother and a tennis player, which is very demanding. It is very inspiring for sports, athletes, women – it’s simply incredible.”
The 32 seeds for men and women have the first access round in this combined ATP Masters and WTA 1000 tournament.
Gracheva aligned a second round meeting with the ninth seeded Mirra Andreeva, the 17 -year -old Russian who became the youngest WTA 1000 champion in Dubai last month.
In other matches, the French veteran Caroline Garcia beat us the Joker Bernarda Pera 6-3, 6-4 to align a second-round meeting with the title champion of the second head of IGA Swiattek.
Nishikori fights through
In the male action, Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands beaten Miomir Kecmanovic of Serbia 6-7 (5/7), 6-4, 6 to book a second round meeting with the first German group Alexander Zverev, who runs a field of Jannik Sinner, the number one in the field, while he serves a prohibition of drugs at three months.
China Bu Yunchaokete beat the American Noishsh Basavareddy 7-5, 6-4 to book a second round match against the fifth Russian series Daniil Medvedev, a finalist in the past two years in Carlos Alcaraz-who is a head of second position while he continues a rare three times.
The Japanese veteran Kei Nishikori, who revealed during the Australian Open that he had almost left tennis last year after long battles with injury, beat Spain Jaume Munar 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (7/3) to align a second round match against Ugo Humbert of the 18th series.
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