Osaka says Indian Wells feels like a homecoming
INDIAN WELLS, California : Naomi Osaka said she feels right at home at Indian Wells as she returns to the tournament where she earned her first WTA title.
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INDIAN WELLS, California : Naomi Osaka said she feels right at home at Indian Wells as she returns to the tournament where she earned her first WTA title.
Emma Raducanu claimed an emphatic 6-2 6-1 win over former two-time champion Angelique Kerber in the last 32 of the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart.
No. 3 seed Coco Gauff outlasted Sachia Vickery for a 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 win on Wednesday in an all-American, second-round match at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany.
TOKYO: Naomi Osaka was not required to play after team-mate Nao Hibino sent Japan to their first Billie Jean King Cup finals Saturday (Apr 13) in a 3-1 qualifying win over Kazakhstan.
Former U.S. Open winner Emma Raducanu completed a remarkable weekend as she beat France's Diana Parry to send Britain into the Billie Jean King Cup Finals in Le Portel on Saturday.
Japan, Australia and Slovakia all advanced to the Billie Jean King Cup Finals by clinching victories in the best-of-five-match qualifying round on Saturday.
Former world number one Naomi Osaka said she is not focusing on just results and is instead looking at the "bigger picture" having returned to tennis last year after giving birth.
World number three Coco Gauff said it would not be easy to shrug off Monday's Miami Open defeat by Caroline Garcia but the former Roland Garros runner-up is setting her sights on the claycourt season and the year's second Grand Slam.
World number one Iga Swiatek kept her nerve to beat 26th-ranked Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 6-4 at the WTA Miami Open on Sunday. A day after Swiatek's closest challenger, Aryna Sabalenka, was knocked out of the tournament, the Pole faced a real test from Noskova. The Czech had upset Swiatek in the third round of the Australian Open before the four-time Grand Slam winner gained revenge at Indian Wells. The third meeting this year between the pair was, not surprisingly, a tight affair.