Australian Open: Naomi Osaka tames Tamara Zidansek to reach third round

Second round matches of the womens top-half at the 2019 Australian Open kept up the tempo as in the day session, all nine seeded women players came through to the third round. started the day with a win over Viktoria Kuzmova, while bagelled Madison Brengle in the third set to advance to the round of 32.

13th seed Anastasija Sevastova ended the run of Canadian teen Bianca Andreescu, while 12th seed Elise Mertens defeated Margarita Gasparyan in straight sets. The second-highest seed playing the day session, the fourth seeded , too, punched her way forcefully into the third round defeating Tamara Zidansek in straight sets 6-2, 6-4.

The Japanese player had no problems winning the first set, but found herself down an early break in the second. While Zidansek did consolidate, she was not able to hold off Osaka for long, who broke back the Slovenian to level the set.

At four-all, Zidansek was broken for the second time and while Osaka had some difficulty in closing out the match, she staved off her opponent long enough to successfully make her way through. Up next for Osaka is the 28th seed Su-Wei Hsieh.

The crafty player from Chinese Taipei defeated German Laura Siegemund in the second round. Result_Start (4) Naomi Osaka (JPN) b. Tamara Zidansek (SLO) 6-2, 6-4 (13) Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) b. (Q) Bianca Andreescu (CAN) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 (12) Elise Mertens (BEL) b.

Margarita Gasparyan (RUS) 6-1, 7-5 (21) Qiang Wang (CHN) b. Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) 6-2, 6-3 (28) Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) b. Laura Siegemund (GER) 6-3, 6-4 Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) b. (Q) Natalia Vikhlyansteva (RUS) 6-2, 7-5 (17) Madison Keys (USA) b.

Anastasia Potapova (RUS) 6-3, 6-4 (7) Karolina Pliskova (CZE) b. Madison Brengle (USA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-0 (27) Camila Giorgi (ITA) b. (Q) Iga Swiatek (POL) 6-2, 6-0 Result_End