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Naomi Osaka Loses in First Round of Wimbledon to Unseeded Yulia Putintseva

Two-time Grand Slam champion and world No. 2 Naomi Osaka is out on the first day of Wimbledon.

The reigning U.S. Open and Australian Open champion played a sloppy match and was defeated in the first round at the All England Club by unseeded Yulia Putintseva 7-6, 6-2. This marks Osaka's second straight early exit from a Grand Slam after the 21-year-old lost in the third round of last month's French Open.

Osaka, who has never made it past the third round at Wimbledon, seems to still be flummoxed by how to play on grass. She made 37 unforced errors on Monday (to Putintseva's seven) and looked generally uncomfortable all afternoon on Centre Court.