The third time was the charm for Lucia Bronzetti against Naomi Osaka on Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid Open, as the Italian earned her first-ever win against the former World No. 1 in the first round of the clay-court WTA 1000 event, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Madrid:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Scores<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0Order of play<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Tournament info<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Bronzetti, ranked No. 59, was 0-2 against Osaka previously — including a three-set lost last spring at Roland Garros — but came through the opening round in a 2-hour and 21-minute match, reaching the second round in Madrid for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old now boasts four career wins against former World No. 1s — three of which have come this year. She was Simona Halep’s final opponent — beating the Romanian at her home tournament in Cluj-Napoca in Halep’s last career match — and also topped two-time champion Victoria Azarenka at the Australian Open in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n She advances to face No. 5 seed and Australian Open champion Madison Keys in the hopes of next turning around an 0-8 head-to-head record against Top 10 players, and also an 0-2 mark against Keys.<\/p>\n More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The third time was the charm for Lucia Bronzetti against Naomi Osaka on Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-41546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114382598580113379","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}