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Osaka knocked retired successful Round 3 astatine Wimbledon (0:38)
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova comes from down to extremity Naomi Osaka's Wimbledon tally successful the 3rd round. (0:38)
ESPN News Services
Jul 4, 2025, 08:47 AM ET
Naomi Osaka mightiness beryllium much comfy connected writer courts these days, but she volition erstwhile again permission Wimbledon successful the 3rd circular aft a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 nonaccomplishment to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova connected Friday.
Osaka arrived astatine the All England Club this twelvemonth having mislaid 3 of her past 4 matches astatine the spot and with a vocation grounds of 5-4. Her champion showing was getting to the 3rd circular successful 2017 and 2018; she missed the tourney successful 2021, 2022 and 2023.
From 4-all successful the 3rd set, Pavlyuchenkova grabbed 8 of the match's past 10 points, holding astatine emotion past breaking successful the last crippled with the assistance of a trio of unforced forehand errors by Osaka.
Osaka dropped to 0-6 successful three-set matches astatine Wimbledon oregon the French Open.
"A bulk of you were cheering for Naomi, but that's OK," Pavlyuchenkova, who turned 34 connected Thursday, told the assemblage astatine Court No. 2. "I'm mentally tough, truthful that didn't fuss maine astatine all. The opposite: It gave maine energy."
Osaka is simply a erstwhile No. 1 present ranked 50th and a four-time Grand Slam champion, each connected hard courts, winning the US Open and Australian Open doubly apiece.
Pavlyuchenkova, who is ranked 53rd, was the 2021 runner-up astatine the French Open, and Friday's triumph moved her into the 4th circular astatine Wimbledon for the archetypal clip since she was a quarterfinalist 9 years ago.
Former Wimbledon quarterfinalist and American 13th effect Amanda Anisimova bushed Dalma Galfi 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 to scope the 4th round.
Argentina's Solana Sierra became the archetypal fortunate loser to scope the 4th circular successful the women's singles astatine Wimbledon successful the Open epoch (since 1968) by beating Spain's Cristina Bucsa 7-5, 1-6, 6-1. Sierra is the seventh women's fortunate loser to scope the 4th circular astatine immoderate large successful the Open era, a database that includes Eva Lys astatine this year's Australian Open.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
