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Osaka enjoys winning start in bid to end clay court jinx Issued on: 30/04/2021 - 14:22 1 min Madrid (AFP) Japan's Naomi Osaka began her bid to capture a first clay court title with a 7-5, 6-2 win over compatriot Misaki Doi in the opening round of the Madrid Open on Friday. The 23-year-old world number two eased into the last 32 in 87 minutes on the back of six aces and five breaks of serve. Osaka, the reigning US and Australian Open champion, has seven career hard court titles to her name, but has never managed to lift a clay court trophy. The closest she came to breaking that run was a sem...

Refreshed Osaka hoping to conquer clay-court problems in Madrid 202 MADRID, April 29, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – Naomi Osaka has said she needed a break from tennis ahead of the start of the Madrid Open this week, when the world number two will be hoping to kickstart her career on clay. Osaka has never won a WTA tournament on the red dirt while at the French Open, which starts next month, she is yet to make it past the third round. The Japanese four-time Grand Slam champion will be the number two seed in Madrid, where she plays having taken almost a month off following her quarter-final exit in Miami...

Refreshed Osaka hoping to conquer clay-court problems in Madrid Issued on: 28/04/2021 - 22:12 2 min Madrid (AFP) Naomi Osaka has said she needed a break from tennis ahead of the start of the Madrid Open this week, when the world number two will be hoping to kickstart her career on clay. Osaka has never won a WTA tournament on the red dirt while at the French Open, which starts next month, she is yet to make it past the third round. The Japanese four-time Grand Slam champion will be the number two seed in Madrid, where she plays having taken almost a month off following her quarter-final exi...

Fifth-seeded Misaki Doi of Japan retired at the start of a third-set tiebreak, forfeiting to countrywoman and doubles partner Nao Hibino, 7-5, 5-7, 6-...

Top-ranked Barty cruises in 1st clay event since 2019 April 7, 2021 GMT CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty easily won her first clay-court match in two years, cruising past Japan’s Misaki Doi 6-2, 6-1 on Wednesday in the WTA’s Volvo Car Open. Barty, fresh off a championship run at the Miami Open the past two weeks, had little trouble moving from hard courts to clay. She won 10 of the last 11 games in her first match on the slower surface since winning the 2019 French Open. “There was an adjustment period, without a doubt,” Barty said. “It was a very quick turnaroun...