Overview

• Osaka advanced to the Wuhan Open second round with a 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 comeback over world No. 27 Leylah Fernandez.
• She broke in the 12th game to take the second set, then raced to a 3-0 lead in the decider and closed without facing a break point in the final set.
• The result evens their head-to-head at 1-1, answering Fernandez’s upset of Osaka at the 2021 US Open.
• It marks Osaka’s seventh win of 2025 after losing the first set, matching her most in a single season.
• She will face Linda Noskova next after the Czech defeated Yulia Putintseva.