Madrid: Lucia Bronzetti flies to the second round. Osaka in three sets

Lucia Bronzetti must have a particular feeling, with the former number one in the world. After beating Victoria Azarenka at the Australian Open and Simona Halep in Cluj Napoca, the blue defeated the third former Ranking Queen in 2025, Naomi Osaka, in the first round of the WTA 1000 in Madrid. Like her, only Mirra Andreeva and the unleashed Jelena Ostapeko of recent times.

Bronzetti’s victory

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A beautiful satisfaction, for the 26 year old from Villa Verucchio, number 59 of the world, who beat the Japanese in three sets (6-4 2-6 6-4). Now for Lucia a very difficult commitment, in the second round, against one of the strongest players of this 2025, Madison Keys, winner of the Melbourne Slam. A really good game, that of Bronzetti against a player so now in disarmament like the Osaka (which, however, even at the top, has never loved the battle), but we still talk about one who has won four Slam, a pure talent that unfortunately struggles to go up after various personal vicissitudes. After defeating the depression, Naomi also had the immense joy of becoming a mother, but tennistically it was no longer the same.

Osaka Ko

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In the first set, Lucia was good at exploiting the first break ball offered by the Japanese, granted to the seventh game, and then remained lucid and concentrated until 6-4 with which she closed the first fraction. In the second set, Osaka was good at granting much less to the opponent, becoming increasingly aggressive and returning, albeit for a short time, the player who was: the 6-2 partial final was the direct consequence of all this. The third set is very fought, with continuous breaks and counterbreaks, but the seventh game is still fatal to Naomi, when Bronzetti tears her joke and then still closes with a 6-4, which this time is worth the game and a prestigious victory.