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LONDON (AP) \u2014 Naomi Osaka had a new look to show off before winning her second-round match at Wimbledon<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Osaka, whose fashion reveals have become an event of their own at Grand Slam tournaments, wore a less elaborate outfit for her walk-on than the \u201cKill Bill\u201d inspired kimono<\/a> for her opening-round match Monday.<\/p>\n

This all-white outfit featured a wide belt and a long train behind her. It drew plenty of attention as she made the walk from the locker room to No. 2 Court, trailed by photographers and fans wanting to take their own photos. The four-time major winner took off the latest ensemble as she began warming up for her match against qualifier Anastasia Gasanova on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

She went on to quickly dispatch Gasanova 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just trying to mix it up a little bit,\u201d Osaka said about her outfit, adding she had been worried that a loss might have ruined her daughter Shai\u2019s third birthday on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to be here for longer, I didn\u2019t want to make her get on a plane on her birthday,\u201d Osaka said.<\/p>\n

Osaka\u2019s match was among the early starts on the outside courts as the second round got underway.<\/p>\n

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka soon followed her into the third round, beating McCartney Kessler 6-1, 7-6 (9) on No. 1 Court.<\/p>\n

Sabalenka converted her third match point in the tiebreaker after saving two set points.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe really tested me today and I\u2019m super happy to have passed the test,\u201d said Sabalenka, who will next play Jelena Ostapenko.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s No. 1 and defending champion Jannik Sinner<\/a>, who came from a set down twice to win in five sets in the first round, had a more comfortable victory Wednesday. Sinner beat Nuno Borges 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-4 in the first match on Centre Court.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t entirely straightforward for the Italian, though, as he had to break back for 5-5 when Borges served for the second set, before winning in just over 2 1\/2 hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond set was very, very tough,\u201d Sinner said.<\/p>\n

Other winners included French Open runner-up Flavio Cobolli, No. 17 Frances Tiafoe and No. 21 Tommy Paul.<\/p>\n

Next up on Centre Court was women\u2019s French Open winner Mirra Andreeva<\/a> facing 2024 Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova<\/a> before Novak Djokovic takes on Stefanos Tsitsipas.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Serena Williams returned to Centre Court<\/a> but lost in three sets to Maya Joint in her first singles match in nearly four years. Williams, who tweaked her knee in the match<\/a>, still hopes to play doubles with sister Venus later in the week.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Naomi Osaka had a new look to show off before winning her second-round match at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[317104,652,9660,22623,15511,432,74827,37211,41522,9747,18323,433,15222,6542,99,14907,428,52463,96,2467],"class_list":["post-737224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-anastasia-gasanova","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-barbora-krejcikova","tag-flavio-cobolli","tag-frances-tiafoe","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-jelena-ostapenko","tag-maya-joint","tag-mccartney-kessler","tag-mirra-andreeva","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-nuno-borges","tag-serena-williams","tag-sports","tag-stefanos-tsitsipas","tag-tennis","tag-tommy-paul","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}