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| Naomi Osaka reached the quarter-finals of the Italian Open in 2019 |
Naomi Osaka beat France's Clara Burel in straight sets within the Italian Open to begin with circular on her to begin with appearance at the competition since 2021.
Previous world number one Osaka won 7-6 (7-2) 6-1 against Burel, who is positioned 45th within the world.
It was Osaka's to begin with win against a top-50 adversary on clay since beating Victoria Azarenka at the French Open in 2019.
The 26-year-old, who gave birth to her to begin with girl final year, will confront 19th seed Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine within the moment circular on Thursday.
In the mean time, Britain's Dan Evans will have to be hold up to require on Italy's Fabio Fognini within the men's competition after his first-round tie on Wednesday was cancelled due to severe climate in Rome.
Japan's Osaka, now positioned at 173 within the world, wrapped up the 84-minute coordinate with 27 champs, including eight experts.
"I clearly played a part way better within the moment set," she said.
"I'm trusting that when I play my coordinate tomorrow, I'm able to memorize from the botches that I did nowadays and apply them superior."
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