Australian Open 2022: Naomi Osaka's RETURN is a MAGIC

Naomi thus qualified for the third round of the Happy Slam, showing an excellent psycho-physical shape


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Australian Open 2022: Naomi Osaka's RETURN is a MAGIC

Naomi Osaka played and won the second round at the Australian Open 2022, beating the American Madison Brengle in straight sets. Naomi thus qualified for the third round of the Happy Slam, showing an excellent psycho-physical shape.

To underline this, a perfect return on her opponent's serve, which left Brengle literally speechless.

Rafael Nadal's march to Melbourne Park continues without any particular hitches.

Fresh from the very rapid success against Marcos Giron, the very Spanish champion does not make any particular changes to the script in the match-up with Yannick Hanfmann and reaches the third round for the sixteenth time in his career in the Slam down under.

After a relatively poor first set of problems - spiced up only by an empty pass at 2-2 and equally by a 4-0 breakthrough - Nadal gets chances in the four response rounds in the second. Even if he needs the eighth game to deliver the decisive push.

The third set is definitely more struggled, with the 2009 champion who still breaks in the third game and who at the first useful opportunity with the available serve fixed at 6-2 6-3 6-4 the seventy-one success at the Australian Open.