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First set: Naomi Osaka 6-1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova* (* denotes next server) It takes Osaka 33 minutes to wrap up the first set, and she looks in complete control of this match. It’s hard to see any weaknesses in her game so far, despite how much Pavlyuchenkova tries to examine her. What can the Russian produce in the second?
First set: Naomi Osaka* 5-1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (* denotes next server) A double fault at 30-30 does Pavlychenkova no favours at all here. That’s a shame, you don’t want to give Osaka a freebie like that. Osaka duly works her opponent around the court with apparent ease to break back. The third seed will now serve for the first set.
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