Naomi Osaka celebrates after defeating Garbine Muguruza in Melbourne on Sunday.
Naomi Osaka fought off two match points and came back to eliminate Garbiñe Muguruza in a big-hitting fourth-round matchup of Grand Slam champions at the Australian Open.
The third-seeded Osaka grabbed the last four games to win 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in Rod Laver Arena.
That result puts her back in the quarterfinals of a tournament she won in 2019 for one of her three major trophies.
Osaka was serving at 15-40 while trailing 5-3 in the final set. But Muguruza could not convert either of those match points and wouldn’t win another game.
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Osaka now faces unseeded 35-year-old Hsie Su-wei of Taiwain with a semifinal berth at stake.
