Japanese surprised Vinus Williams in Hong Kong
15.10.2017
Undertaker Vinus Williams (USA) dropped in the second round of the Hong Kong tennis tournament with a prize pool of 250,000 dollars.Williams`s fifth world rankings lost 19-year-old Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka with 5: 7, 2: 6.
The 37-year-old American started better and realized a break in the fifth game, then served for the set at 5: 4 but broke out.Osaka continued his series of nine consecutive games to take the first set and lead 5-0 in the second, which proved decisive.Thus, the Japanese achieved the first victory against a top 5 at the world rankings.In the quarter-finals, Osaka will face the 6th in the scheme, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia), which handled the qualifier Jacqueline Saco (USA) with 7: 6 (3), 6: 1.
Australian veteran Samantha Stoser gave the other surpriseday after eliminating number 4 Agnieszka Radvanska (Poland) with 3: 6, 6: 4, 6: 0.Radvanska squandered a set and an early break in the second, and after 4: 4 Stresser 33-year-old reached the turn after a series of eight consecutive games.
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