By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now | Monday, May 12, 2025
Photo Credit: International BNL of Italy Facebook
Peyton Stearns lost her pre-and post-post-end tiebreaker lunch filled with pressure.
A brave stearns never lost its appetite to fight.
Fighting cramps, a Queasy stomach and a former hot red world no. 1 Naomi OsakaStearns dominated with a pulsating triumph 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4) to reach its quarter-finals of Rome.
Stearns kidnapped the eight-game of Osaka-S-Judgment by fighting through its second direct triumph of its third.
23-year-old Stearns Australian Open Champion Open Madison Keys 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3) in the third round for her second career victory 10.
Showing the intestines and a harsh one will be again today, vomiting stearns in court trash can before Osaka serve at 5-6 to force a tie located in one of the hottest days of the tournament so far.
Following 2-4 in the switches, Stearns dug deep, torn an excellent striking attack below the line.
Breaking the back of Osaka, Stearns attacked with five points to end a phenomenal war after two hours, 42 minutes.
The last set only lasted an hour, 22 minutes and saw both women return from a separation. Osaka climbed 2-0 to decision makers before Stearns flowed in four in a row to take a 4-2 lead. Osaka won eight out of 10 points, returning to the seventh match before leaving the last set in the 4th.
A dramatic tiebreaker without stearns fighting both Osaka and her body.
All that perseverance came at a painful price.
After learning a final background to end it, Stearns seemed to suffer the cramps of their feet, threw into the net for shaking their hands, then immediately revised the trash bin to vomit again.
Talk about tough Texas.
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A year ago, Stearns ranked 82nd.
Today’s triumph revealed the former Gymnast in a new ranking in the high career of no. 32 in the direct ranking of WTA.
All Americans three times in Texas quotes the difficult court as its favorite surface, but Stearns can dig deep into dirt as well. Her only tournament title came to Rabat’s red mud in 2024, a year after she reached the Bogota final in dirt.
Stearns Rome’s Roma comes a month after its coach, Tom Hill, set off to return to training Mary Sabbath. Hill’s La Stearns exit by posting for a new coach on social media.
Now, she is playing some of the most dynamic dirt tennis of her career – and shows a strong stomach for any stress test.
