Miami Open 2025: Osaka battles back to advance to second round
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Miami Open 2025: Osaka battles back to advance to second round

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A scrappy Naomi Osaka came from behind to beat Yuliia Starodubtseva 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the Miami Open on Tuesday for her first win since January’s Australian Open. I was going to run into every corner if I had to, and we were going to have to play for three hours if she was going to beat me.” The match hinged on a tense Osaka service game in the third set, where she fended off two break chances for her Ukrainian opponent and crushed an unreturnable serve to take a commanding 4-1 lead. She would pound another serve Starodubtseva could not get back over the net on match point to secure the hard-fought victory in two hours and 28 minutes with coach Patrick Mouratoglou looking on. The Japanese player faces 24th seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia in the second round on Thursday, with the pair having split their two career head-to-head meetings.

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