Naomi Osaka has made a successful begin to her 2025 season after routing qualifier Lina Glushko 6-4 6-4 on the WTA 250 event in Auckland.
In her first match of the 12 months, the four-time Grand Slam champion did fairly strong as she was accountable for service whereas creating probabilities for herself on the return.
In the long run, the Japanese fired seven aces and transformed three of her seven break level probabilities en path to getting the job performed in in an hour and 25 minutes of play.
For Osaka, this was her Auckland match since 2017.
Additionally, it was her first assembly in opposition to world No. 220 Glushko.
In her subsequent match, the seventh-seeded Japanese faces 470th-ranked Julia Grabher for a spot within the quarterfinal.
How Osaka beat Glushko and what she stated afterward?
Within the third sport, the previous world No. 1 earned and realized her first break level to go up early.
That break of serve was sufficient for the No. 7 seed to clinch the primary set.
Similar to within the first set, the Japanese additionally broke Glushko within the third sport of the second set – however this time – the Israeli immediately managed to get the break again within the following sport.
After blowing an early second-set break, Osaka additionally missed out on two consecutive break factors within the fifth sport.
Nonetheless, she did not panic and broke the world No. 220 once more within the ninth sport earlier than serving out for the match within the following sport.
Afterward, the four-time Grand Slam winner spoke extremely of Glushko.
“I’m actually completely satisfied to be again. I positively assume she’s a tremendous opponent. I had by no means performed her earlier than. It was good to need to scrap for the primary spherical. I had no thought what the rating was more often than not,” she stated following her win.
