{"id":471410,"date":"2026-06-01T23:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/471410\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T23:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T23:23:12","slug":"supreme-sabalenka-too-strong-for-osaka-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/471410\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Sabalenka too strong for Osaka &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/33249-a.sabalenka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> faced Naomi Osaka for the first time in eight years in March in Indian\u00a0Wells, she said that she hoped that the two Grand Slam champions would play &#8220;many more times&#8221; after a tight two-set win.<\/p>\n<p>Three times in three months might&#8217;ve been beyond Sabalenka&#8217;s\u00a0expectations. But the frequency of such a marquee match-up will likely matter little to the world No.1, as long as she keeps winning them. <\/p>\n<p>The top seed at Roland-Garros completed the roster of women&#8217;s quarterfinalists\u00a0with her third win against Osaka this year &#8211; a high-quality 7-5, 6-3 tilt on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>A nervy start by Sabalenka &#8211; she trailed 2-0 &#8211; gave way to a fantastic finish in just under an hour-and-a-half. <\/p>\n<p>She never faced a break point\u00a0for the rest of the match, and struck 12 aces and 39 winners. <\/p>\n<p>It was a level of play necessary to top a game four-time Grand Slam champion in Osaka, who struck 20 winners and just 18 unforced errors of her own in a high-quality performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka knew it, too, saying afterwards in her on-court interview that she&#8217;s been getting better with every match she&#8217;s playing in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am mostly happy with the way I served, and that I was able to put that pressure back on her,&#8221; she said, hailing Osaka as a &#8220;great player&#8221; and their &#8220;super-aggressive&#8221; tennis.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Aryna Sabalenka faced Naomi Osaka for the first time in eight years in March in Indian\u00a0Wells, she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-471410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}