{"id":783213,"date":"2026-07-06T05:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783213\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T05:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T05:19:14","slug":"tennis-osaka-upsets-sabalenka-to-reach-wimbledon-quarters-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783213\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Osaka upsets Sabalenka to reach Wimbledon quarters for 1st time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8211; Japan&#8217;s former world No. 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/articles\/-\/77135\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> upset top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-2, 7-6(2) in the Wimbledon fourth round on Sunday, advancing to the quarterfinals at the All England Club for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n<p>The 14th-seeded Osaka became the first Japanese woman to reach the last eight at Wimbledon since Ai Sugiyama in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve had so much fun on the court, and to do it here, it really means a lot,&#8221; the four-time Grand Slam winner said in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka&#8217;s Wimbledon breakthrough also marked a turnaround in her head-to-head series against fellow power-hitter and current world No. 1 Sabalenka.<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian had won their three previous meetings this season, including in the fourth round of the French Open earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going into this match, I lost to her three times in a row, so that really sucked,&#8221; Osaka said. &#8220;I wanted to turn it over, and I&#8217;m really glad I had the opportunity to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osaka will next face 10th-seeded Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic for a place in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki saw his dream run in the men&#8217;s singles draw come to an end in the fourth round, the world No. 151 losing 6-3, 7-6(0), 6-3 to defending champion and top seed Jannik Sinner of Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON &#8211; Japan&#8217;s former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka upset top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 6-2, 7-6(2) in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-783213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}