Recently, Liudmila Samsonova and Naomi Osaka have become frequent rivals on the Hologic WTA Tour. Their second-round clash at the Omnium Banque Nationale was their fifth meeting in the past 16 months, and lived up to its billing as Osaka came from a set and 5-3 down, saving two match points, to triumph 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-3 over the No. 13 seed in 2 hours and 37 minutes.<\/p>\n
Montreal:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n Playing her first match with new coach Tomasz Wiktorowski in her player box, Osaka also trailed 5-2 in the second-set tiebreak before fighting back. She takes a 3-2 lead in her head-to-head against Samsonova, having won all three of their hard-court meetings (following Indian Wells 2024 and Miami 2025). Samsonova’s pair of wins both came on natural surfaces (Madrid 2024 and Berlin 2025).<\/p>\n Osaka also snaps a four-match losing streak in deciding sets, notching her first three-set win since defeating Marie Bouzkova 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the third round of Rome. Her season record in three-setters now stands at 10 wins to six losses. In just her second appearance in Montreal, the former World No. 1 advances to the third round for the first time, where she will face either No. 22 seed Jelena Ostapenko or Renata Zarazua.<\/p>\n “She definitely came out really hard and for me, I was definitely overwhelmed,” Osaka said in her on-court interview. “I didn’t know if I should also be hitting winners. But after a while I just tried to keep the ball in court.”<\/p>\n More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recently, Liudmila Samsonova and Naomi Osaka have become frequent rivals on the Hologic WTA Tour. Their second-round clash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-34110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}