Three-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka started her 2021 Australian Open campaign with an easy win Monday, but Japan's biggest hope in the men's draw, former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori, was unable to make it beyond the first day in Melbourne.Osaka powered past Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, 6-2, while Nishikori, who missed nearly a year of competition following elbow surgery in late 2019, fell 7-5, 7-6(4), 6-2 to Spanish 15th seed Pablo Carreno Busta.Despite being drawn against a tricky first-round opponent, Osaka, who won the Grand Slam in Melbourne in 2019, raced through the ope…READ FULL ARTICLE
