Match Report<\/p>\n
Top-seeded Ann Li is one of three Americans into the Osaka quarterfinals.<\/p>\n
Richard PagliaroOctober 22, 20262 minute read<\/p>\n
By Richard Pagliaro | Thursday, October 22, 2026
Photo credit: Screen Shot<\/p>\n
Ann Li arrived in Osaka on fall ascension.<\/p>\n
The top-seeded Li continues flying high. <\/p>\n
Li smacked seven aces in a 6-3, 6-1 win over Zeynep Sonmez to reach her second straight quarterfinal at the Japan Open.<\/p>\n
In her second tournament as a top seed, Li scored her first win over Sonmez in four meetings, including a three-set Wimbledon loss in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty good, I think it was pretty solid from start to finish,\u201d Li said. \u201cI had a couple of more chances I didn\u2019t take in the first set. But I just tried to focus on myself and keep playing aggressive from the first point to the last.\u201d<\/p>\n
Entering this event ranked a career-high No. 25 following her run to the Wuhan Open quarterfinals, Li is one of three Americans into the last eight in Osaka.<\/p>\n
It was Li\u2019s seventh win in her last nine matches and sends her into a quarterfinal clash vs. 18-year-old Austrian powerhouse Lilli Tagger.<\/p>\n
American qualifier Mary Stoiana defeated Moyuka Uchijima 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 in two hours, one minute. <\/p>\n
Playing just her seventh Tour-level match, Stoiana advanced to her second quarterfinal following her run to the last eight in Sao Paolo last month. Stoiana will play Katerina Siniakova for a semifinal spot.<\/p>\n
World doubles No. 1 Siniakova swept Magda Linette 6-4, 6-1. Siniakova was Osaka singles finalist 10 years ago, bowing to American Christina McHale in the 2016 final.<\/p>\n
American Ashlyn Krueger overpowered Lanlana Tararudee 6-3, 6-1. Krueger will play fourth-seeded Aussie Talia Gibson for a place in the semifinals. The winner of Krueger vs. Gibson will play either Li or Tagger in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Top-seeded Ann Li is one of three Americans into the Osaka quarterfinals. Richard PagliaroOctober 22, 20262…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-942137","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\/942137","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=942137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}