{"id":709035,"date":"2026-06-01T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709035\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:28:11","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-ends-naomi-osakas-fashion-show-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709035\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka ends Naomi Osaka’s fashion show at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 Naomi Osaka may have had the edge in the fashion contest<\/a>. In the tennis department, though, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka was the winner.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka beat Osaka 7-5, 6-3 on Monday to reach the French Open<\/a> quarterfinals and move one step closer to finally winning the clay-court Grand Slam after getting beaten by Coco Gauff in last year\u2019s final<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was the first women\u2019s night match at Roland Garros in three years and Osaka entered the court wearing a golden bomber jacket over her gold sequin playing dress, trailing a tiered train with puffs of tulle.<\/p>\n

Sabakenka wore more standard tennis attire: A slightly sheer black flared tennis dress with a red underlayer; plus diamond necklaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the matchup of four-time Grand Slam champions, Sabalenka improved to 3-1 in her career against Osaka, who was playing in the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka overpowered Osaka from the baseline, and produced a huge forehand return winner on her first match point that Osaka barely got her racket on.<\/p>\n

Tournament organizers had been criticized for not scheduling more women\u2019s matches at night, with Roland Garros officials responding that women\u2019s best-of-three set matches don\u2019t occupy enough time for TV broadcasters. The men play best-of-five set matches.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka won in 1 hour, 27 minutes.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka\u2019s quarterfinal opponent will be Diana Shnaider, who beat Madison Keys \u2014 the last American woman remaining in contention \u2014 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.<\/p>\n

French hopes were dashed following Diane Parry\u2019s 6-3, 6-2 loss to 114th-ranked Polish player Maja Chwalinska.<\/p>\n

Chwalinska had never been beyond the second round of any major, and her run is even more impressive since she came through three qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n

Chwalinska\u2019s quarterfinal opponent will be Anna Kalinskaya, who surprised even herself by reaching the last eight after defeating Anastasia Potapova 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (10-7).<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking two weeks ago that I will be here, I wouldn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Kalinskaya said. \u201cI would probably laugh with my team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many top women\u2019s players were already eliminated, such as Gauff, four-time winner Iga Swiatek and No. 2-ranked Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n

Sinner\u2019s out but Italians move on<\/p>\n

Despite top-ranked Jannik Sinner losing in the second round, Italian fans will have at least two men in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n

Tenth-seeded Flavio Cobolli advanced to his second Grand Slam quarterfinal \u2014 and his first here \u2014 after beating American Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s for sure my favorite Grand Slam to play,\u201d Cobolli said after winning on Court Philippe-Chatrier. \u201cWe have the best feeling with the surface as Italians.\u201d<\/p>\n

A little while after his win, Cobolli \u2014 a former youth soccer player at Italian club Roma \u2014 joined players from the Paris Saint-Germain team as they paraded the Champions League trophy on Court Philippe-Chatrier. PSG beat Arsenal<\/a> in the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Cobolli\u2019s next opponent will be No. 4 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, who beat Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 to reach the last eight at all four majors. The Canadian has never been beyond a Grand Slam semifinal, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot having Sinner in the semifinals is another opportunity, but you need to be there,\u201d Auger-Aliassime said. \u201cSo I have to focus on the next match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big-serving Matteo Berrettini joined Cobolli in the quarterfinals after beating Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6). Berrettini last reached the quarterfinals here in 2021 \u2014 but hadn\u2019t been back to the tournament since then because of a series of injuries and physical issues.<\/p>\n

Matteo Arnaldi will try to make it three Italians in the last eight when he plays No. 19 Frances Tiafoe later.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP Sports Writer Samuel Petrequin, and AP Fashion Writer Colleen Barry in Milan contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Naomi Osaka may have had the edge in the fashion contest. In the tennis department,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[73575,111821,25090,7382,4909,64,63,18937,41766,70413,20336,54077,105414,1519,1805,339385,2636,754,247159,68138,344802,140960,32648,28375,2591,291107,13198,85,747,246904],"class_list":["post-709035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alejandro-tabilo","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-anna-kalinskaya","tag-arsenal-fc","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coco-gauff","tag-diana-shnaider","tag-diane-parry","tag-elena-rybakina","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-flavio-cobolli","tag-frances-tiafoe","tag-french-open","tag-french-open-tennis-championships","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-juan-manuel-cerundolo","tag-madison-keys","tag-maja-chwalinska","tag-matteo-arnaldi","tag-matteo-berrettini","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-paris","tag-paris-saint-germain-fc","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-zachary-svajda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709035","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=709035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}