{"id":49697,"date":"2026-07-05T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/arina-sabalenka-and-naomi-osaka-advance-to-wimbledon-showdown\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:05:16","slug":"arina-sabalenka-and-naomi-osaka-advance-to-wimbledon-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/arina-sabalenka-and-naomi-osaka-advance-to-wimbledon-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Arina Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka advance to Wimbledon showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Friday, world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka won in straight sets and will face off for a spot in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka beat Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 6-4 on Center Court and declared herself ready to face 14th-seeded Osaka in a battle of four-time Grand Slam champions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s a very aggressive player and serves well,&#8221; Sabalenka said. \u201cI watched some of her matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m ready to go out there and take the fight and do whatever it takes to get through this difficult match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Osaka needed just 65 minutes to defeat Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-3 on Court 1. Osaka reached the fourth round for the first time at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p>Coco Gauff defeated fellow American Claire Liu 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2 after holding three match points at 5-4 in the second set. Gauff will next face No. 11 seed Belinda Bencic.<\/p>\n<p>Other winners in the women&#8217;s draw included No. 4 seed Jessica Pegula, No. 10 seed Karolina Muchova and 2024 Wimbledon champion Barbora Krejcikova.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and Naomi Osaka won in straight sets and will face off for a spot in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Sabalenka beat Jelena Ostapenko 6-4, 6-4 on Center Court and declared herself ready to face 14th-seeded Osaka in a battle of four-time Grand Slam champions. &#8220;She&#8217;s a very aggressive player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[292,3454,2718,2719,224,1098,24,1790],"class_list":["post-49697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-advance","tag-arina","tag-naomi","tag-osaka","tag-sabalenka","tag-showdown","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}