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\nOsaka eased into the second round of the French Open<\/p>\n
Aryna Sabalenka drew as much attention for her diamond jewellery as her performance in reaching the second round of the French Open.<\/p>\n
The world number one, who is bidding to win her first title in Paris, did not look entirely comfortable in the hot conditions but overcame a couple of wobbles to claim a 6-4 6-2 victory over Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka is always a strong presence on court but she is unmissable this year with her Material Good jewellery set featuring diamond necklaces and a pair of earrings worth approximately \u20ac130,000.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the 28-year-old was a leading figure in the player protest calling for elevated levels of prize money from the grand slams, but she dismissed suggestions of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t really see how it can be possible to cross these two completely different worlds,” she said.<\/p>\n
“As I said before, prize money, it\u2019s not about me at all. It\u2019s just fighting for players, lower-ranked players who are really struggling to survive in this tennis world.<\/p>\n
“So it has nothing to do with me that I\u2019m fighting for the prize money. Everyone knows that I\u2019m okay. It\u2019s just that we are fighting for a fair percentage out of the revenues, and also for the lower-ranked players, players coming back after injuries, next generation, to be more comfortable coming into the top 10.”<\/p>\n
Sabalenka chose only to wear two of the three necklaces during the match, and insisted the jewellery is a help rather than a hindrance.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t really feel the heaviness of it, but I can imagine how it looks from the outside,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s supposed to be the third necklace, but, I was, like, ‘OK, it\u2019s kind of too much probably\u2019, so I decided to keep it just two.<\/p>\n
“I feel pretty comfortable. For me, it\u2019s important to look good. If I feel good looking-wise, I perform better and I feel great.”<\/p>\n
\nOsaka eased into the second round of the French Open<\/p>\n
Naomi Osaka\u2019s grand slam outfits have become a major talking point, and she again made a dramatic entrance in a long black skirt and top before removing both to reveal a sparkling gold dress.<\/p>\n
She did not have an easy time of it against the tricky Laura Siegemund but battled to a 6-3 7-6 (3) victory, while defending champion Coco Gauff defeated fellow American Taylor Townsend 6-4 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka drew as much attention for her diamond jewellery as her performance in reaching the second round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-468924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}