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Jonathan White

Japan’s Naomi Osaka made light work of France’s Caroline Garcia in their Australian Open second-round meeting.
Osaka won 6-2, 6-3 at Melbourne Park’s Rod Laver Arena to move on to face Tunisian Ons Jabeur in the next round.
The third seed wasted little time in beating Garcia, taking just 61 minutes.
World No 3 Osaka recorded her 16th straight win, which runs back to her winning the US Open last year.

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She pulled out of the French Open, just as she missed the climax of the pre-Australian Open Gippsland Trophy last weekend.
There was no sign of her “niggling injury” as she made short work of the French world No 43 but she was full of praise for Garcia.
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“It’s really hard to play opponents like her because you never know what she’s going to do and how hard she’s going to hit,” she said after the match as she looked towards Jabeur.
“She’s really funny and nice,” Osaka said of the Tunisian and “the match I’m going to play against her is going to be really difficult”.
Her focus in Melbourne is all on the tennis during Covid-19.
“Honestly, I just stay in my room. The first day I got here I was really excited, because you guys get to do stuff, unlike in America. So I walked around but then I felt guilty, I didn’t know if guys were staring at me, so then I just stayed in my room and started watching Netflix.”


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Reward for straight sets victory is Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in third round at Melbourne Park
Japanese third seed races to victory past France’s Caroline Garcia in just over an hour



Reward for straight sets victory is Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in third round at Melbourne Park.


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Australian Open 2021: Naomi Osaka beats Caroline Garcia to face Ons Jabeur

.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;} Reward for straight sets victory is Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in third round at Melbourne Park Japanese third seed races to victory past France’s Caroline Garcia in just over an hour

Reward for straight sets victory is Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in third round at Melbourne Park

Japanese third seed races to victory past France’s Caroline Garcia in just over an hour