mo4ch:>World number one Osaka mirrors Serena Williams’ win, surviving 3-set thriller at French Open | Mo4ch News

First seed women’s tennis player Naomi Osaka of Japan has followed in the footsteps of her principle rival Serena Williams, winning her first-round game in three sets after desperately dropping the first one.Like Williams, who also needed three sets to book a ticket to the tournament’s next round, Osaka was forced to apply maximum effort on Tuesday to go past the first round of the French Open. She took a hard-fought three-set victory over Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.READ MORE: Serena Williams gets 1st win in 'zebra' outfit at French Open despite dropping opening setThe 21-year-old tennis star claimed a 0-6, 7-6, 6-1 victory despite having a disastrous start where she failed to take any single game allowing her less-decorated rival to register a more than confident 6-0 win in the first set.The beginning of the second set was more optimistic for the Japanese star who immediately broke Schmiedlova to take a 3-0 lead.However, the two-time Grand Slam winner quickly squand…