Camila Osorio was on the brink more than once against home favorite Iva Jovic.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Colombian trailed by a break twice in the second set and faced three match points on Jovic\u2019s serve at 5-4. Osorio responded by breaking for 5-5, capturing the set in a tiebreak and eventually grinding out a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory in 2 hours and 39 minutes in front of a pro-Jovic crowd on Stadium 3.<\/p>\n
Indian Wells: Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n The win sends her into the third round at Indian Wells for the first time, where she\u2019ll face former champion Naomi Osaka, who advanced earlier in the night with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva in 1 hour and 28 minutes on Stadium 2.<\/p>\n It will be their third meeting at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level. Their most recent encounter came at this tournament a year ago, when Osorio upset Osaka in straight sets in the first round.<\/p>\n Another year, another quality win in the desert for Osorio\u00a0<\/p>\n On Friday, Osorio produced another shock victory, defeating the No. 18 seed Jovic, who was also in seeking her first third-round appearance at Indian Wells.<\/p>\n It all came down to Osorio\u2019s poise on the pressure points. The three-time WTA titlist converted all five of her break points and saved 11 of the 15 she faced, repeatedly showing her championship mettle.<\/p>\n Most notably, she saved break points while trailing 2-0 in the second set to avoid going down a double break. After fending off that threat — and later three match points — she saved three more break points before holding for 6-5. In the tiebreak, she seized control with a 4-1 lead she never relinquished.<\/p>\n With momentum fully on her side, Osorio broke to open the third set and raced ahead 4-0. Jovic held for 4-1, then mounted one late push by breaking and consolidating for 4-3. But Osorio held for 5-3 and broke once more in the final game to seal the comeback.<\/p>\n Osaka wins in return to action<\/p>\n For Osaka, Friday marked her first match since withdrawing ahead of her third-round contest at the Australian Open in January. And while the victory mattered, she said she stepped on court with just one priority.<\/p>\n \u201cI just wanted to have a lot of fun,\u201d Osaka said in her on-court interview. \u201cAnd I feel like I succeeded in doing that. Thank you, guys, for letting me play in front of you all. Also, I\u2019ve never played Victoria before, and she\u2019s really young and played a really good match, so it was fun to play.\u201d<\/p>\n She certainly looked loose early, winning the first nine points of the match as she jumped out to 4-0 lead. Moments later, she served for the set at 5-2, but that\u2019s when things got tight.<\/p>\n Jimenez Kasintseva generated her first break point and converted for 5-3 as Osaka\u2019s forehand missed the mark. Then, after saving three set points and holding for 5-4, the 20-year-old found the line with a brilliant backhand winner to level at 5-all. But Osaka responded by breaking for 6-5 and converting her sixth set point in the next game.<\/p>\n The two remained on serve through the first four games of the second set before Osaka, rocking a leopard-print kit, pounced. She struck a backhand winner on her fourth break point of the game to break for 3-2, the first of four straight games that carried the four-time Grand Slam champion into the next round.<\/p>\n If she can get past Osorio, Osaka will advance to the fourth round at the BNP Paribas Open for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Camila Osorio was on the brink more than once against home favorite Iva Jovic. The 24-year-old Colombian trailed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462842","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=462842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}