{"id":9064,"date":"2025-06-24T16:51:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/swiatek-and-paolini-go-on-quarter-osaka-loses-in-bad-homburg\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:51:55","slug":"swiatek-and-paolini-go-on-quarter-osaka-loses-in-bad-homburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/swiatek-and-paolini-go-on-quarter-osaka-loses-in-bad-homburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiatek and Paolini go on quarter, Osaka loses in Bad Homburg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Second-seeded Jasmine Paolini overcame a brave fight from Leila Fernandez on Tuesday, defeating 7-6 (8) 7-6 (6) in a dramatic round of 16 collisions at the Bad Homburg Open, where Fernandez saved four match points.<\/p>\n

Paolini framed the opening set with a tiebreak and saved the setpoint at 5-4 after a 26-shot rally before sealing 10-8.<\/p>\n

The Italians were hoping for a straight set victory on the course when they led 5-2 in the second time, but Canada’s Fernandez saved the match point with an ace and came back.<\/p>\n

Paolini held more match points at 6-5, but Fernandez saved all three to force a tiebreak. Fernandez went 6-4 on the breaker, but Paolini held firmly and saved two set points before figuring out the victory at the fifth match point.<\/p>\n

Despite converting only five of the 17 breakpoints, Parini secured his first victory in Grass this season after a two and a half hour match.<\/p>\n

“It’s so much fun to play with the grass, but you have to get used to it and you need to be confident in the game as well.<\/p>\n

“I also really like going to the net and doing drop volleys. It’s fun, but at the same time it’s a bit difficult.”<\/p>\n

Fourth seed Iga Swiatek overcame a late start to defeat Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka 6-4 6-4. After tracking 2-4, Swiatek broke Azarenka at 4-3 and flattened it.<\/p>\n

Paul broke 5-4 again, saving two breakpoints in the tense final game. Azarenka then sent out a wide-wide to admit the set.<\/p>\n

The players traded the break early in the second set before Swiatek pulled away. After beating 4-3, the top seed seals the victory two more times in a straight set.<\/p>\n

The poor form of four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi’s big continued after falling 6-4, 6-4 against America’s fifth seed Emmanavaro.<\/p>\n

Navarro will face his fellow countryman Jessica Pegra on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Second-seeded Jasmine Paolini overcame a brave fight from Leila Fernandez on Tuesday, defeating 7-6 (8) 7-6 (6) in a dramatic round of 16 collisions at the Bad Homburg Open, where Fernandez saved four match points. Paolini framed the opening set with a tiebreak and saved the setpoint at 5-4 after a 26-shot rally before sealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2817,2818,2713,2719,56,1570,774,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-9064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bad","9":"tag-homburg","10":"tag-loses","11":"tag-osaka","12":"tag-paolini","13":"tag-quarter","14":"tag-swiatek","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","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=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}