Four-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka continued to turn on the style at Wimbledon as she eased into the third round with a straight-sets win over Anastasia Gasanova.<\/p>\n
Two days after wearing a ‘Kill Bill’ inspired kimono ahead of her opening match, the Japanese 14th seed again turned heads, sporting a white jacket with floral decoration and a long train which trailed behind her.<\/p>\n
The latest elaborate outfit caught the attention of spectators and photographers as Osaka walked to Court Two, where she required just an hour and seven minutes to wrap up a 6-3 6-2 victory over the Russian world number 225.<\/p>\n
Osaka\u2019s train was attached to her waist by an obi \u2013 a wide, decorative belt traditionally worn with kimono.<\/p>\n
“I feel like my inspiration can be anything,” said the 28-year-old, who was born in Osaka, Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother and spent most of her childhood in Florida.<\/p>\n
“I took a trip to Japan one day (and) then obviously you go to Harajuku (a district of Tokyo famous for fashion and cosplay culture), and you see everyone expressing themselves through clothes.<\/p>\n
“It was just so cool and colourful. That stuck out to me a lot. I kind of used that in my fashion experimentation.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t really ever have a plan when it comes to clothes. I think it\u2019s OK to try something and fail, but I\u2019d rather just try it and see how it goes.”<\/p>\n
World number 65 Daria Kasatkina \u2013 a Wimbledon quarter-finalist in 2018 \u2013 awaits Osaka after she came back from a set down to defeat Indonesia\u2019s Janice Tjen 6-7 (7-5) 6-1 6-4.<\/p>\n
Former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko backed up her first-round win over Britain\u2019s Harriet Dart by defeating Antonia Ruzic 6-2 6-0.<\/p>\n
Croatian Ruzic was initially drawn to face Emma Raducanu in round one before overcoming Latvian lucky loser Darja Semenistaja following the injury withdrawal of the British number one.<\/p>\n
Wimbledon debutant Mananchaya Sawangkaew also progressed \u2013 in far less fortuitous fashion than her first-round match.<\/p>\n
The Thai qualifier, who claimed a maiden win at grand slam level on Monday after French Open runner-up Maja Chwalinska injured herself on match point, beat American Alycia Parks 7-5 6-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four-time grand slam champion Naomi Osaka continued to turn on the style at Wimbledon as she eased into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-527884","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\/527884","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=527884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}