{"id":20041,"date":"2024-02-14T11:04:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/qatar-open-naomi-osaka-given-free-passage-into-quarter-finals-after-opponent-lesia-tsurenko-withdraws-tennis-news\/14\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:04:33","slug":"qatar-open-naomi-osaka-given-free-passage-into-quarter-finals-after-opponent-lesia-tsurenko-withdraws-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/qatar-open-naomi-osaka-given-free-passage-into-quarter-finals-after-opponent-lesia-tsurenko-withdraws-tennis-news\/14\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar Open: Naomi Osaka given free passage into quarter-finals after opponent Lesia Tsurenko withdraws | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Naomi Osaka was given free passage through to the quarter-finals at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open after opponent Lesia Tsurenko withdrew because of injury ahead of their scheduled contest.<\/p>\n

Osaka, who returned to the tour in January following the birth of daughter Shai last summer, is now through to the last eight at a tournament for the first time in nearly two years.<\/p>\n

The four-time Grand Slam champion had won only one of her first four matches of the year prior to heading to Doha.<\/p>\n

But the Japanese star has hit form in the Qatari capital, reversing her Australian Open loss to Caroline Garcia in the first round and then defeating Croat Petra Martic.<\/p>\n

It is her best run since she reached the final of the Miami Open in April 2022, losing to Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n

In the quarter-finals, two-time WTA 1000 titlist Osaka will face Karolina Pliskova<\/strong>, who recorded her seventh win in seven consecutive days – four in Europe and three in Asia – as she beat fellow Czech Linda Noskova 3-6 7-5 6-1.<\/p>\n

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Osaka, who was on maternity leave for the end of 2022 and all of 2023, is into her first WTA Tour quarter-final since she reached the Miami Open final in March of 2022<\/p>\n

Currently ranked No 747, Osaka is the second-lowest-ranked woman to reach a WTA 1000 quarter-final. Sloane Stephens, who was ranked No 934 when she made the 2017 Toronto semi-finals, still holds that record<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova’s difficult start to the year continued with a 7-5 6-3 loss to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova<\/strong>, while Australian Open runner-up Zheng Qinwen was beaten 7-5 6-3 by former US Open runner-up Leylah Fernandez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The result was Fernandez’s sixth career top-10 win, and second in the past four months following her defeat of Vondrousova in last November’s Billie Jean King Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Fernandez will next face either former Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina or Emma Navarro.<\/p>\n

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