AFP, MELBOURNEHsieh Su-wei of Taiwan gave Japan’s Naomi Osaka an emotional ride in the Australian Open women’s singles yesterday before the US Open champion sent her packing. Fourth seed Osaka uncharacteristically blew her cool as she struggled against Hsieh’s unorthodox strokeplay, receiving a warning for racket abuse. Osaka, who is next to face Latvian 13th seed Anastasija Sevastova, said she found it difficult to settle the Taiwanese world No. I can never really tell where she’s going to put the ball,” Osaka said. I became: ‘OK, I’m leading, I’m leading,’” Hsieh said, wrapping her hands round her throat in a choking gesture.

Source: Taipei Times January 19, 2019 16:03 UTC