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Glenn Moore

Navarro ends Osaka's Wimbledon as Gauff progresses

On the face of it American 19th seed Emma Navarro's 6-4 6-1 Wimbledon second round victory over a player ranked 113th in the world is a routine, even mundane result, worth little more than a footnote in the dispatches from SW19.

Except the player on the receiving end of what became a 58-minute hiding was Naomi Osaka, a four-time grand slam winner and one of the best-known players in the women's game.

Osaka was world No.1 for 25 weeks in 2019, before Ash Barty made the spot her own, and was still only 23 when she won her second Australian Open title in 2021.

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