US Open: Defending Champ Emma Raducanu Naomi Osaka Exit In Round One

Written By Uche Dozie

Defending champion, Emma Raducanu, two times champion, Naomi Osaka close Tuesday’s match ups with big upsets.

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Emma Raducanu’s title defense at the US Open ends in the first round of the 2022 tournament, as she loses to Alizé Cornet 6-3, 6-3 on Armstrong Stadium.

The 19-year old who was error prone through out the match will drop to around 80 in the WTA Ranking.

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“I think it’s a clean slate. I can just start again. I don’t know what my ranking
will be, probably pretty low down.
With perspective, as a 19-year-old, I’ve had not a bad year. I think it would be nice in a way to kind of just start over, start fresh”. Raducanu said.

For Cornet, it was her record 63rd consecutive women’s singles Slam main draw, beating Halep in Melbourne, Ostapenko in Paris, Swiatek at Wimbledon, and now Raducanu in New York.

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For the first time since 2017, Naomi Osaka will finish a season without a Grand Slam title as Danielle Collins gets her first win over her to move on in the US Open.

Collins came back from a break down in both sets to beat two times champ Naomi Osaka 7-6(5), 6-3.

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She hit 11 backhand winners, forced Osaka into 30 errors, and won 77 percent of Osaka’s second-serve points.

“I’m the type of person that thinks a lot, to the point where I overthink. Sometimes when I play matches, I have to tell myself to stop thinking, just go more on instinct,” said Osaka, who’s been bothered by a bad back lately. “I feel like I just have to chill a little bit, because there’s a lot of like random chaos in my head right now.”

It is the fourth consecutive loss for Osaka who exits her second straight Slam in the first round.

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