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Blimey, Osaka has a trio of match points against serve and only needs one of them. Both go at it from the baseline with freedom but it’s Muguruza who cracks first with a ball just long of the baseline. Had she played anybody else, Muguruza probably would have won that, but that’s why Osaka is a champion. She held her nerve in clutch points – match point – and progresses to the quarter-finals and will play Hsieh Su-Wei, who defeated Marketa Vondrousova 6-4, 6-2 earlier today on Margaret Court Arena.
“I feel like I was a bit intimidated because I knew she was playing really well coming into this match,” Osaka said. “For me, I feel like in the stressful points, I feel like I have to go within myself and I know that today I probably hit a lot of unforced errors that I think it was something I needed to do because I couldn’t really give her any shortfalls because she would finish it.”
Third set: Garbine Muguruza 6-4, 4-6, 5-6 Naomi Osaka* Osaka has turned the tables big time, holding serve to force the two-time grand slam winner to serve to stay in the match.
We’ll take a proper look ahead to the day after this match has come to a conclusion.
