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Three of those victories have come on hard
courts, where Osaka has collected her four Grand Slam crowns.
"Everyone knows I really love hard courts. I wasn't thinking too
much. It was very instinctual," Osaka said after the match.
"Honestly, when I play the best players, like Ons, I tend to
play better.
"I'm feeling quite confident in myself as a person and as a
player, and I think that showed a little."
Osaka converted 4 of 6 break points and hit 14 winners against
Tunisia's Jabeur, who had seven double faults and landed just 36
percent of her first serves (21 of 58).
In the day's only second-round match, third-seeded Jessica
Pegula of the United States topped the Czech Republic's Karolina
Pliskova 7-5, 6-4. Pliskova aided Pegula by committing eight
double faults and by winning just 17 percent of her second-serve
points.
Spain's Paula Badosa, who won last week in Washington, extended
her winning steak to six straight matches with a 6-1, 6-4
victory over Denmark's Clara Tauson.
Padosa recorded seven aces, converted 4 of 12 break points and
saved 4 of 5. Tauson notched 10 double faults.
Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia, seeded 13th, needed three hours
and 19 minutes to outlast the Czech Republic's Marie Bouzkova
5-7, 6-2, 7-6 (1).
Haddad Maia saved 9 of 14 break-point opportunities and
converted 6 of 12.
Russian Diana Shnaider, seeded 14th, also went three sets in
eliminating Great Britain's Harriet Dart 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (2).
Shnaider converted 6 of 23 break points, while Dart converted 6
of 9.
Canada's Leylah Fernandez, the 15th seed, downed Japan's Nao
Hibino 6-3, 5-7, 6-1.
In other matches in the Round of 64, American Ashlyn Krueger won
6-3, 6-2 over Italy's Elisabetta Cocciaretto, and Amanda
Anisimova defeated fellow American Caroline Dolehide 6-1, 6-4.
American Peyton Stearns won 6-4, 6-3 over Russia's Anna Blinkova.
Other winners were Poland's Magda Linette, Canada's Marina
Stakusic, Belgium's Elise Mertens, Great Britain's Katie Boulter
and China's Yue Yuan.
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