{"id":671889,"date":"2026-07-03T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671889\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:45:08","slug":"wimbledon-2026-results-naomi-osaka-beats-daria-kasatkina-to-reach-fourth-round-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/671889\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2026 results: Naomi Osaka beats Daria Kasatkina to reach fourth round for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world number one Naomi Osaka broke new ground as she raced into the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time with victory over Daria Kasatkina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All four of Osaka&#8217;s Grand Slam singles titles have been won on hard courts, and she has struggled to play her natural, big-hitting game on the French Open clay and All England Club grass-courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the Japanese 14th seed &#8211; who arrived on Court One in yet another showstopping outfit &#8211; looked at home at SW19 as she thrashed Kasatkina 6-1 6-3 in just 65 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dominant display comes less than five weeks after Osaka reached the last 16 of Roland Garros for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Osaka could face top seed Aryna Sabalenka in a blockbuster clash next if the Belarusian beats Latvia&#8217;s Jelena Ostapenko later on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I definitely felt really good today. I&#8217;ve played a lot of matches on grass for the past two weeks, so I felt really confident,&#8221; the 28-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Osaka made her first grass-court final at the Bad Homburg Open last month, although on that occasion she was forced to retire injured at the start of the second set against Karolina Muchova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, it seems that run in Germany has given Osaka a much-needed boost of confidence on the surface, and she has yet to drop a set at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world number one Naomi Osaka broke new ground as she raced into the Wimbledon fourth round for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671889","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=671889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}