Belinda Bencic (WTA 28) will not play the WTA 1000 final in Miami on Saturday. The Olympic Champion unfortunately did not go the distance in front of Naomi Osaka (WTA 77).
Belinda Bencic lost 3-6 6-3 6-4 to the Japanese after 2h06′ of the match. However, she believed for a long time to be able to sign a fourth victory in a row against Naomi Osaka after her successes in Indian Wells, Madrid and New York in 2019. She flew over the first set before offering herself two balls of 3- 1 in the third round. She overused them to lose four games in a row. Led 5-2, she had the merit of signing a last break to maintain the hope of a comeback.
Naomi Osaka finds the light in Florida in a tournament where she was simply playing for her place in the WTA top 100. In tears a little over two weeks ago after her elimination in the second round at Indian Wells against Veronika Kudermetova, Naomi Osaka became again in the space of a few days this player in service – 18 aces against Belinda Bencic – and in the unstoppable forehand. She will be opposed on Saturday to the winner of the meeting between the future world No. 1 Iga Swiatek and the American Jessia Pegula (WTA 21).
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