It was an easy night for the defending Australian Open women’s champion in Naomi Osaka as she took down American Madison Brengle through straight sets 0-4, 4-6 at Rod Laver Arena, her next opponent for Round 3 on Friday will be another American in Amanda Anisimova.
For Brengle, it’s on the contrary who is disappointed with the early Australian Open exit having gone past Round 1 via walkover v Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska. She showed some fight after being beaten so easily from the first set and was so close towards securing a 3rd set decider, but Brengle left it too late where a poor start & some fightback later on made it harder to hold back Osaka.
And Osaka played outstanding as always for the whole time that secured a quick and easy win, she smashed it 6-0 in the first set before Brengle began to catch up after the break while Osaka took time to escape Brengle & eventually made it past the finish line unscathed with the win.