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Hello. We begin with a doozy of a match on Suzanne-Lenglen today, with the current world No1 taking on the player who used to sit on the throne. Naomi Osaka might not be the queen of tennis just yet – not while Serena Williams, who faces Japan’s Kurumi Nara, later, is still around – but the wonderfully idiosyncratic Japanese youngster has already established herself as tennis royalty after her wins at the Australian Open and the US Open.
It’s rare to see grand slam triumphs backed up in the women’s game these days, but Osaka’s done it and she’s desperate to make it three in a row here. To keep that dream alive she’ll have to be at better than she was against Anna Karolina Schmiedlova on Tuesday. Osaka was in bits for long spells against Schmiedlova, who twice served for the match, and it remains to be seen how fit she is after a hand injury disrupted her preparations for the tournament. Victoria Azarenka, the two-time Australian Open champion, will be eager to find out.
Written by Jacob Steinberg
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/may/30/french-open-2019-day-five-live-novak-djokovic-naomi-osaka-thiem-halep under the title “French Open 2019: Osaka v Nara, plus Edmund in action on day five – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
