After defeating Ariana Arsaault in the first round of Canadian Open, Naomi Osaka announced the farewell of coach Patrick Mouratoglou. Currently, she is trying with coach Tomasz Wikikiowski, who previously led Iga Swiatek. The match against Liudmila Samsonova in the second round this morning marked the first time between the two.
Entering Set 1, Naomi Osaka started to deviate. Meanwhile, Samsonova played confidently. The Russian tennis player quickly gained advantage with the break right at the opening game and successfully defended the gaming game in Game 6. She maintained a fragile advantage to close the first set with a 6-4 victory.
Sang Set 2, Samsonnova continued to surpass 0-40 in the first game, making Osaka struggle to save 5 break Points. However, the Japanese tennis player still lost the break in the following two games and was led 3-5. With a great advantage, Samsonova seemed to have grasped the victory in his hand, but the unexpected scenario happened.
Despite facing 2 match-points, Osaka still resolutely resolved successfully when Samsonova serve to end the match. After that, she took advantage of the double delivery to win the first break. Former No. 1 in the world continued to win 3 consecutive games to equalize and put the two sets into the tie-break series.
On the 'gunfire' series, Samsonova started better when he took the lead 5-2 after the first change. However, Osaka then won 4 consecutive points to get the first set point, but could not take advantage. In the second set-point, the Japanese player succeeded when Samsonova broke down the hand, thereby equalizing 1-1 after two sets.
Entering Set 3, the better Osaka play, soon win the break and take the 4-1 lead. Samsonova tried to reclaim a gaming game, but Osaka kept the advantage to lead 5-3 in Game 8. In the end, the world's No. 1 closed the match with a 6-3 victory.
With this result, Naomi Osaka has officially won tickets to the third round of Canadian Open 2025. She will compete in the quarterfinal ticket with the No. 22 Jelena Ostapenko seed. Another notable name was also present in the third round was Emma Raducanu, with an easy victory of 6-2, 6-4 against Peyton Stearns.
