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The match resumed and Muchova won 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 40 minutes, not including the delay.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tournament organisers also brought forward Saturday\u2019s final to 11am local time, amid predictions of 41 degrees later in the day.<\/p>\n After her match, Osaka said she was thrilled to reach a first career grass court final but had her eyes on the big prize.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m also really happy, but there\u2019s one more match to be played and we\u2019re going to focus on that,\u201d Osaka said.<\/p>\n Osaka said her daughter, who will turn three during Wimbledon next week, was already waiting in London but was not yet aware of her mother\u2019s true occupation or status in the game.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if she knows I\u2019m successful, I think she just knows I play tennis,\u201d said the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes when we\u2019re at home and I pick up my tennis bag, she\u2019ll ask \u2018Oh, are you going to play tennis?\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know if she really likes it, but I think she knows what I do, but she probably doesn\u2019t know how good I am at it.\u201d<\/p>\n Osaka blasted six aces and broke her opponent once to take the first set comfortably.<\/p>\n Early in the second, Xinyu answered an Osaka break with a break of her own but the Japanese player quickly wrestled back control of the match.<\/p>\n Osaka broke Xinyu again and took the match in one hour and 10 minutes to continue her strong grass court form just days out from Wimbledon, where she has been handed the 14th seed.<\/p>\n Osaka won two titles apiece on the hard courts of the Australian and US Opens, but has struggled on grass, never making it past the third round at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAD HOMBURG, Germany \u2014 Four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka is into the first grass court final of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[33325,33160,33288,8,85,25330,89,33326],"class_list":["post-48538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-osaka","tag-downs","tag-final","tag-homburg","tag-japan","tag-osaka","tag-reach","tag-to","tag-wang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}