Osaka, Zverev stunned, Serena withdraws in Miami
also managed to get his thoughts on Conor McGregor, who was just recently involved in another controversial issue, to this, he replied, “Conor Mc Gregor changed the game a little bit, and a lot of people are trying to follow suit. But they don’t realize that Conor has the gift of gab, and he backed it up too.”
He also added that Conor risks diluting his legacy as one of the greats of the sport if he continues to be mired in controversies outside the cage, without proving himself inside it.
“You can be the most popular in the world, but if you’re not in there and not doing something positive, and out there causing trouble, it’s not a good look for him,” ends Edgar.
Naomi Osaka crashed out of the third round of the WTA and ATP Miami Open on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) as Hsieh SuWei exacted revenge for a painful Australian Open defeat with a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory.
World number one Osaka had looked in
moving a break ahead in the second.
But Taiwan’s Hsieh, who was a set and 4-1 up in Melbourne earlier this year before losing to the Japanese star in the third round, battled superbly.
“This was a very emotional win for me,” said Hsieh, whose 39 winners were one less than her opponent. “Any time you beat one of the top players it is amazing.”
It wasn’t the only shocker of the day, as Spanish veteran David Ferrer rallied to beat world number three Alexander Zverev 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 to reach the third round.
Ferrer, 36 and ranked 155th in the world, received a wild card into the tournament as he continues a limited schedule in a 2019 billed as his farewell tour.
Zverev, runner-up to John Isner here last year, coughed up 12 double faults as he suffered his second straight early exit in succession after a third-round departure at Indian Wells.
Osaka was coming off a fourth-round exit at Indian Wells, but Hsieh’s coach said her victory wasn’t all that surprising.
“She has enough experience to stay strong and you saw that,” French coach Frederic Aniere, who has worked with Hsieh for the last two years and is also her boyfriend, told AFP.
“Yes it’s huge, but for her it’s not a big surprise.”
The 33- year- old Hsieh will play Caroline Wozniacki in the fourth round of the women’s draw, which now looks wide open following Osaka’s defeat and former world number one Serena Williams’s surprise exit with a left knee injury.