{"id":342253,"date":"2026-05-29T02:21:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=342253"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:51:42","slug":"naomi-osaka-moves-into-french-open-third-round-vs-iva-jovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/naomi-osaka-moves-into-french-open-third-round-vs-iva-jovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka moves into French Open third round vs Iva Jovic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"FOR_target_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_678597\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-678597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts as she plays against Donna Vekic of Croatia during their second round women\u2019s singles tennis match on the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>PARIS\u2013Naomi Osaka advanced to the third round of the French Open for the primary time in seven years Thursday with a 7-6 (7\/1), 6-4 win over Croatia\u2019s Donna Vekic.<\/p>\n<p>4-time Grand Slam champion Osaka will next tackle American teenager Iva Jovic as each players attempt to achieve the last 16 at Roland Garros for the primary time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"billboard_article\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i id=\"art_cont\" style=\"color:#85A7BF;\">Article continues after this commercial<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>READ: Naomi Osaka channels Eiffel Tower with French Open outfit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osaka, seeded sixteenth, retrieved an early break against Vekic after which broke back again when her opponent was serving for the primary set.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese star dominated a tie-break and got here up with the decisive break late within the second set to place away the 72nd-ranked Vekic.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka\u2019s run to the US Open semi-finals last 12 months is the one time she has made the second week of a serious since her last Grand Slam triumph on the 2021 Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p>The previous world primary returned to the courts in early 2024 after a 12 months out following the birth of her daughter.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Osaka of Japan reacts as she plays against Donna Vekic of Croatia during their second round women\u2019s singles tennis match on the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo\/Thibault Camus) PARIS\u2013Naomi Osaka advanced to the third round of the French Open for the primary time in seven years Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[728,51983,51984,1430,1611,1574,1612],"class_list":["post-342253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-french","tag-iva","tag-jovic","tag-moves","tag-naomi","tag-open","tag-osaka"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342256,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342253\/revisions\/342256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}