NEW YORK – Two-time U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka exited the tournament in the fourth round Monday with a 6-1, 6-4 loss to No. 2 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
Japan’s former world No. 1 gave up an early break on her second service game and from there could not gain an upper hand over the in-form Rybakina, who wrapped up the contest in 66 minutes.<\/p>\n
The 13th-seeded Osaka was “sad that I couldn’t do what I set out to do” but sounded a positive note about the loss.<\/p>\n
“I think I am happy that I’m taking losses differently. I’m trying to learn from them a lot more,” Osaka said. “I had an opportunity to play this Slam, I got as far as I could, so it’s only up from here.”<\/p>\n
Rybakina, who won her second major at this year’s Australian Open, will secure the world No. 1 ranking if she beats quarterfinal opponent Zheng Qinwen of China.<\/p>\n
Eri Hozumi and Slovenian partner Andreja Klepac were beaten in the women’s doubles third round, while Miyu Kato and Taiwan’s Wu Fang-hsien also lost, leaving Japan without a player in the singles or doubles draws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – Two-time U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka exited the tournament in the fourth round Monday with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-884108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884108","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=884108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}