Osaka beaten, Gauff goes through

 Four-Time
Grand
Slam
champion,
Nao­mi
Osaka,
paid
the
price
for
too
many
errors
as
she
lost
in
straight
sets
to
19th
seed,
Emma
Navarro.

The
26-year-old,
playing
at
Wimbledon
for
the
first
time
in
five
years,
was
beaten
6-4
6-1
in
the
second
round.

The
defeat
means
Osaka
has
still
not
progressed
be­yond
the
third
round
at
Wim­bledon
after
four
attempts.

Competing
as
a
wildcard
after
the
birth
of
her
first
child
last
year,
Osaka
missed
the
2022
tournament
through
injury
and
in
2021
took
breaks
from
the
sport
to
deal
with
mental
health
issues.

Earlier,
Coco
Gauff
stormed
past
Romanian
qualifier,
Anca
Todoni,
to
move
into
the
third
round
of
Wimbledon.

The
second
seed
enter­tained
the
crowd
under
the
roof
on
Court
One
with
big
hitting
to
earn
a
6-2
6-1
victory
in
66
minutes.

Gauff
will
play
British
qualifier,
Sonay
Kartal,
who
claimed
the
biggest
win
of
her
career
with
victory
over
France’s
Clara
Burel
later
on
Wednesday.-BBC