{"id":555873,"date":"2026-03-21T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555873\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:40:08","slug":"australias-talia-gibson-defeats-naomi-osaka-7-5-6-4-at-miami-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/555873\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s Talia Gibson defeats Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-4 at Miami Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian qualifier Talia Gibson has continued her stunning form with an upset win over former world number one Naomi Osaka at the Miami Open.<\/p>\n

Gibson defeated 16th seed and four-time major winner Osaka in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, to advance to the round of 32.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old, ranked 68 in the world, will next face 18th seed Iva Jovic.<\/p>\n

Gibson arrived in Miami fresh from her quarterfinal appearance at the prestigious Indian Wells tournament last week.<\/p>\n

Gibson beats Paolini at Indian Wells Open<\/a><\/p>\n

Talia Gibson scores one of the biggest wins of her young career as she advances at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n

She defeated three seeds, including world number seven Jasmine Paolini<\/a>, in Indian Wells before going down to Linda Noskov\u00e1 in the last eight.<\/p>\n

Gibson was the first Australian woman to reach the Indian Wells quarterfinals since Casey Dellacqua in 2014.<\/p>\n

Her results saw her crack the top 100 on the WTA rankings for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n

Gibson beat world number 41 Sara Bejlek 6-1, 6-0 in her first-round match in Miami.<\/p>\n

Jovic comfortably got past former world number two Paula Badosa in the round of 64, winning 6-2, 6-1.<\/p>\n

Gibson’s fellow Australian Aleksandar Vukic exited the men’s main draw via a 6-1, 6-2 loss to Rafael J\u00f3dar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian qualifier Talia Gibson has continued her stunning form with an upset win over former world number one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,2755,93434,7795,28375,85,52477,747,26599],"class_list":["post-555873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-florida","tag-iva-jovic","tag-miami-open","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-sports","tag-talia-gibson","tag-tennis","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}