Australian Open 2021: Naomi Osaka advances to semifinal with simple win over Hsieh Su-wei

Image Source : GETTY IMAGES Osaka earned her nineteenth victory in a row by overpowering Hsieh Su-wei 6-2, 6-2, and can subsequent meet the winner of the quarterfinal between Williams and No. 2-seeded Simona Halep.
Naomi Osaka superior Tuesday to a possible semifinal showdown towards Serena Williams on the Australian Open.
Osaka earned her nineteenth victory in a row by overpowering Hsieh Su-wei 6-2, 6-2, and can subsequent meet the winner of the quarterfinal match Tuesday evening between Williams and No. 2-seeded Simona Halep.

“Normally I never look at my draw,” Osaka stated. “But everyone has told me about my draw here, so I kind of had no choice but to know who my next opponent is. It’s definitely going to be really fun.”
Seeded third, Osaka reached 122 mph (196 kph) on her serve towards Hsieh. She hit seven aces, misplaced solely two factors on her first serve and was by no means damaged.
Osaka additionally performed glorious protection, comparable to within the ultimate recreation, when she raced ahead to chase down a drop shot, flicking a backhand cross-court for a winner.

At 35, Hsieh was the oldest lady to make her Grand Slam quarterfinal debut within the skilled period. But Osaka wasn’t fazed by Hsieh’s flat, misleading two-handed strokes from either side, pounding forehand winners into each corners.
Osaka’s profitable streak features a U.S. Open title in September for her third Grand Slam championship. The streak additionally contains her fourth-round win final week, when she saved two match factors and swept the ultimate 4 video games to overhaul Garbiñe Muguruza.
“It makes me a bit more calm, knowing that my back was severely against the wall,” Osaka stated.
Osaka is 4-0 in Grand Slam quarterfinals, together with a victory en path to the Australian Open title in 2019.
Two quarterfinal matches had been on the lads’s schedule: eight-time champion Novak Djokovic towards Alexander Zverev, and Grigor Dimitrov versus 114th-ranked qualifier Aslan Karatsev.