Osaka Advances To Pan Pacific Final In Home City.
Japan’s Naomi Osaka reacts while playing against Belgium’s Elise Mertens during their women’s singles semi-final match at the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Osaka on September 21, 2019/ AFPJapanese tennis sensation Naomi Osaka beat Elise Mertens of Belgium on Saturday to reach the final of the Pan Pacific Open, thrilling her Japanese fans in the city of her birth.
“It’s been kind of rough like the past couple of months so I’m really glad that I made it to the final,” she said.She tried to stay calm because the 23-year-old Belgian player is “an amazing player and it’s so hard to hit her balls,” she said. “For me, I learned a lot from when I played her at Wimbledon, and I know that a hard court is where I feel most comfortable,” Osaka told press after beating Putintseva.
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