No. 23 seed Naomi Osaka advanced to a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time since 2021 by routing No. 3 Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 in the U.S. Open Round of 16 on Monday in New York.

Osaka won 15 of her 16 first-serve points (93.8%) and needed just 64 minutes to finish her dismantling of Gauff, the 2023 winner at the Billie Jean King Center.

"I was super locked-in," Osaka said in her on-court interview. "I felt like everyone wanted to watch a really great match and I hope that's what you got."

It was no contest from the outset as Osaka reached the quarterfinals at a major for the fifth time in her career. She won each of the other four — twice at the Australian Open (2019, 2021) and twice at the U.S. Open (2018, 2020).

Osaka zipped through the first two games to start off a strong openin

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