{"id":6889,"date":"2026-08-08T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/times509.com\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:25:39","slug":"tennis-naomi-osaka-beats-elise-mertens-and-moves-on-to-the-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/tennis-naomi-osaka-beats-elise-mertens-and-moves-on-to-the-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Naomi Osaka beats Elise Mertens and moves on to the round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">To secure a spot in the round of 16 of the Toronto tournament, Naomi Osaka was ruthless against Elise Mertens, beating her 6-1, 6-2, this Friday, August 7, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">To secure a spot in the round of 16 of the Toronto tournament, Naomi Osaka was ruthless against Elise Mertens, who was beaten 6-1, 6-2 on Friday, August 7, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">After getting past Mexican Panna Udvardy 6-2, 6-4 on Wednesday, Naomi Osaka claimed another victim by defeating Belgian Elise Mertens in straight sets: 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Dominating throughout the match, Naomi Osaka gave the Belgian no chance. On the other hand, the Japanese player of Haitian father, besides winning 12 games, hit 7 aces to outclass Elise Mertens, who didn\u2019t know what to do to stop Naomi Osaka.This Sunday, August 9, in the round of 16 at the Toronto tournament, Naomi Osaka will face Canadian Leylah Fernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To secure a spot in the round of 16 of the Toronto tournament, Naomi Osaka was ruthless against Elise Mertens, beating her 6-1, 6-2, this Friday, August 7, 2026. To&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6891,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/6891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}