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Tennis: Osaka reaches Wimbledon last 16 for first time

# Tennis: Japan’s Naomi Osaka ended her long wait to reach the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time with a 6-1, 6-3 win against Australian Daria Kasatkina on Friday.  The 28-year-old needed just 65 minutes to dispatch Kasatkina, setting up a fourth-round clash against world No 1 Aryna Sabalenka or former Roland Garros champion Jelena Ostapenko. Osaka’s habit of wearing haute couture costumes onto court before removing them to play in her usual tennis attire has been the talk of Wimbledon. She wore an all-white layered Japanese ceremonial-style kimono before facing Kasatkina.