[Sport] Tokyo Olympics| Osaka bid farewell to the "worst loss" .. Tsitsipas and Svitolina qualified

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Japan's Naomi Osaka, ranked second in the world looking for Olympic glory on her home soil, suffered a setback today, Tuesday, after her exit from the third round of the Tokyo Olympics in the tennis competitions, by falling to the 42nd Czech Marketa Vondrushova 6-1, 6-4, in the "worst loss", according to her description. .

Osaka was chosen to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Games last Friday, marking the start of the competitions and became the first female tennis player to receive this honor in the history of the Olympics.

Osaka was the favorite to win the gold after the shocking first-seeded Australian Ashleigh Barty was knocked out of the first round on Sunday and third-seeded Belarusian Arina Sabalenka on Monday, especially in the absence of many of the top ten seeded women.

"How disappointed am I?," said the four-times major. I'm disappointed after every loss, but I feel like this was more ugly than the other times."

In response to a question about the reasons for this painful defeat, “Everything.... if you watch the match, you will notice that. I feel like there are a lot of things I wanted to do and didn't work out today.”

The 23-year-old has been absent from the courts since withdrawing from her second-round match at Roland Garros in May, due to the repercussions of her decision to boycott the media, before revealing that she suffers from depression and anxiety problems that also kept her from competing in Wimbledon, before returning to her country's postponed Olympics from Last summer due to the Corona virus and be the star of the opening ceremony.

“I definitely think there was a lot of pressure in that," she said. I think it's because I didn't play in the Olympics and the pressure was too much for my first time."

"I feel more than ever that I'm just focused on tennis," Osaka said after winning the first round. Running in the Olympics has been a dream I had since I was a child.”

However, this dream ended early on a disastrous day in which she committed 32 direct fouls within 68 minutes, compared to only 10 for her opponent, while they tied in the winning kicks (22).

“Of course, this is one of the biggest victories of my career,” said Vondrushova, 2019 runner-up at Roland Garros. Naomi is a great player, she has won many Grand Slam titles so I knew it was going to be a tough match. I am happy to qualify.”

And the Czech crossed to the quarter-finals, where she will meet the Spaniard Paula Padusa, who defeated Argentine Nadia Podroska 6-2, 6-3.

The scene was cleared for world number five Elina Svitolina, who is now the top seed. She almost missed this opportunity, but had not succeeded in making up for her group delay in front of the Greek Maria Sakkari to win 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, to meet in the quarter-finals with Italian Camila Georgi, who eliminated the Czech Karolina Plichokova, runner-up for Wimbledon 6-4, 6-2 .

Spain's Garbine Mugurosa qualified for the quarter-finals after beating Belgium's Alison van Uytvanck 6-4, 6-1, where she will meet Croatia's Donna Vekic or Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina.

She was followed by Swiss Belinda Becic, who ousted the reigning Czech Roland Garros 1-6, 6-2, 6-3, to set up a date with the last runner-up in France, Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, participating under the neutral flag, who defeated Spain's Sara Soribes Tormo 6-1, 6-3.

Crossing Tsitsipas and Svitolina
In the men's category, the Greek, Stefanos Tsitsipas, ranked fourth in the world, qualified for the third round after defeating the American Francis Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4, and the Argentine Diego Schwarzman at the expense of the Czech Tomas Macak 6-4, 7-5.

The homeowner, Kei Nishikori, qualified by defeating American Marcus Giron 7-6 (7/5), 3-6, 6-1, accompanied by French Jeremy Chardy, at the expense of Russian Aslan Karatsev 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

In the most prominent doubles competition, the British duo Andy Murray, who was withdrawn from the singles due to muscle problems, and his compatriot Joe Salisbury qualified for the third round at the expense of Germany's Tim Poetz and Kevin Kravitz 6-2, 7-6 (7/2).