Naomi Osaka rallies to beat Canada's Leylah Fernandez at Wuhan Open

The Associated Press

· Posted: Oct 07, 2025 7:10 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 7

Naomi Osaka dropped the archetypal acceptable earlier rallying to bushed Leylah Fernandez 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 connected Tuesday to beforehand to the 2nd circular of the WTA's 1,000-level Wuhan Open.

Osaka was backmost successful the cardinal Chinese metropolis for the archetypal clip since 2017 and, successful the day's archetypal lucifer connected halfway court, facing the subordinate who produced a large upset to bushed her astatine the 2021 U.S. Open.

Fernandez converted 1 of her 2 first-set breakpoint chances and served consistently. But Osaka stepped up unit connected the work returns successful the 2nd set, which featured 5 work breaks, and finished implicit the apical of the 2021 U.S. Open finalist.

Emma Raducanu, who bushed Fernandez to triumph the U.S. Open rubric 4 years ago, was trailing Ann Li 6-1, 4-1 erstwhile she retired from their first-round lucifer owed to dizziness.

In different aboriginal matches, Sofia Kenin edged Anastasia Zakharova 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 to acceptable up a second-round gathering against No. 16 Liudmila Samsonova, who bushed Emiliana Arango 6-1, 7-5.

No. 2 Iga Swiatek was scheduled to marque her Wuhan tourney debut successful a second-round lucifer against Marie Bouzkova successful the nighttime session.

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and No. 3 Coco Gauff were owed to unfastened Wednesday. No. 4 Amanda Anisimova, the runner-up astatine some the U.S. Open and Wimbledon this year, withdrew from the Wuhan Open citing a near calf musculus wounded aft winning the China Open title.

Canadian Gabriel Diallo, pictured competing astatine a anterior event, said his absorption is connected the Davis Cup necktie against Israel not the protest. (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Elsewhere, Canada's Gabriel Diallo was bounced from the Rolex Shanghai Masters connected Tuesday.

Zizou Bergs of Belgium bushed the Montreal autochthonal 3 sets –  3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) – in their circular of 16 match.

That leaves chap Montrealer Felix Auger-Aliassime arsenic the lone Canadian near successful the the tournament. He'll look Italy's Lorenzo Musetti on Wednesday.