Anisimova upsets defending champion Osaka at Australian Open

Naomi Osaka following her third round loss to Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. at the Australian Open, on Jan. 21, 2022. Within an hour of her third-round loss at the Australian Open, defending champion Naomi Osaka had consigned it to the past.Osaka had two match points against 60th-ranked Amanda Anisimova in the third set Friday, and she missed two backhands.

"I'm not sure if I'm going to have regrets about those two match points," Osaka said. "Like, I thought she played really well. But I can't really look in the past anymore, you know?Anisimova, who had lost her previous nine matches against top 20 players and had to rebound from a set and a break down to survive her first-round match, hit 46 winners to Osaka's 21.

Anisimova won her first WTA hardcourt title at a tuneup tournament in Melbourne this month and is now on an eight-match winning streak -- the longest of her career in main draw matches. "I can't win every match. So I just have to, like, take that into account," Osaka said. "I feel like I grew a lot in this match. The last match that I played in New York I think I had a completely different attitude, so I'm really happy with -- you know, of course I lost, but I'm happy with how it went."She advanced to the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-3 win over 30th-seeded Camila Giorgi and has only conceded eight games and spent less than three hours on court.

She had her son with her at a news conference and five-year-old Leo, wearing his sunglasses and sitting on his mother's knee, described the two-time champion's form as: "Awesome!" Other fourth-round pairings that were set up Friday include fifth-seeded Maria Sakkari against 21st-seeded Jessica Pegula and No. 8 Paula Badosa against Madison Keys, who held off Wang Qiang 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 on Friday.

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