{"id":17017,"date":"2021-02-10T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=93006"},"modified":"2021-02-10T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:00:05","slug":"australian-open-naomi-osaka-powers-past-caroline-grace-into-third-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/australian-open-naomi-osaka-powers-past-caroline-grace-into-third-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Naomi Osaka powers past Caroline Grace into third round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Naomi Osaka thwarted Caroline Garcia effortlessly to win straight sets as she raced into the Australian Open third round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka faced a tough contest against the Frenchwoman but ended up defeating her 6-2, 6-3 in just 61 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stayed focused throughout the match and I tried to play within myself,\u201d said Osaka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a tough opponent because you don\u2019t know how she might play,\u201d added the Japanese, who hit 23 winners at the Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time Grand Slam winner is currently on a 16-match unbeaten streak, including the US Open final which was held 12 months back.<\/p>\n<p>The 2019 Australian Open champion eased through the opening set to draw first blood and snuffed out any challenge from 43-ranked Gracia before finishing the match with her 10th ace.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka is eyeing redemption after her title defence last year ended with a shock loss to an American teenager,\u00a0 Coco Gauff in the third round. She faces 27th seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s Naomi Osaka thwarted Caroline Garcia effortlessly to win straight sets as she raced into the Australian Open third round\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":37766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,1421,615,202],"class_list":["post-17017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-grand-slam","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-tennis"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}