Naomi Osaka, seeded 12th, beat Maria Timofeeva in the round of 64 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, according to api.tennis.
Match progress
Osaka started the match by taking the opening set, but Timofeeva responded in the second set and levelled the score. In the deciding stretch, the Japanese player moved ahead again and closed out the win.
There are no serving, break-point or point statistics in the api.tennis data, so the picture of the match comes from the set score: the two players split sets, and the result went to Osaka.
In this tournament, Timofeeva had beaten Daria Vidmanova in the round of 128 before facing Osaka, 6-3, 6-3. For Osaka, this match is listed in her tournament path as a round of 64 win.
In the head-to-head, the score is now 1:0 in Osaka's favor: api.tennis lists one match between them, which ended with a win for the Japanese player.