Tachikawa (Japan) Sep 22 (IANS) Japan s tennis star Naomi Osaka No. 3 seed reached the Toray Pan Pacific Open final for the second time in her career after defeating Italy s Camila Giorgi 6-2 6-3 on Saturday.
The US Open champion took 71 minutes to overcome world No. 37 Giorgi in their first ever encounter clearing the way for a trophy on home soil reports Efe news.
"I knew that once I hit any short ball or any ball without that much speed she was going to try to go for it. I think that we have two completely different games and mine just happened to win today " Osaka said after the match.
The World No. 7 is set to next take on Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic for the third time overall and the second this year on Sunday.

--IANS kk/bg