Angelique Kerber has eliminated Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-3 in the first round of the Paris Olympics tennis competition.
FILE - Naomi Osaka lights the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony at the Olympic Stadium at the 2020 Summer Olympics , July 23, 2021, in Tokyo. Kerber, a silver medalist in 2016 at Rio de Janeiro, has said she will retire after competing for Germany at these Summer Games.Osaka was hoping for a better showing than she had at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago in her native Japan.
Osaka rose to the top of tennis a few years ago, winning four major championships — two apiece at the U.S. Open and Australian Open — from 2018 to 2021 and becoming the highest-paid female athlete in any sport. Osaka then left the tour while she was pregnant; her daughter was born in July 2023. She returned to Grand Slam action at the Australian Open this January and appeared to be back to her best tennis during the French Open a few months later, when she pushed eventual champion Iga Swiatek to three sets and held a match point.
Against Kerber, Osaka's strokes were off the mark. She finished with 30 unforced errors, nearly three times as many as Kerber's 11. And Osaka only broke Kerber once while dropping four of her own service games.
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