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Manoj BhagavatulaESPN
Naomi Osaka defeated Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 to win the 2020 U.S. Open on Saturday. Here are the notable stats for the second US Open Osaka title and third Grand Slam win.
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Osaka is the first Asian player, male or female, to win three Grand Slam titles (China’s Li Na won two). Osaka is also the first woman to come back a set in the US Open final since 1994, when Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario staged a comeback to beat Steffi Graf.
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Osaka is the first woman to win the US Open without facing a WTA Top-20 player since rankings were introduced in 1975.
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Osaka is the fourth woman since the Open Era began in 1968 to win a Grand Slam final after losing the first set 6-1 or 6-0. The others were Tracy Austin (d. Martina Navratilova, US Open 1981), Sánchez Vicario (d. Graf, US Open 1994) and Jennifer Capriati (d. Kim Clijsters, French Open 2001).
In the same period, the women who lost the first set 6-1 or 6-0 have lost 30 major finals.
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This was the fourth match of Osaka’s Grand Slam career in which he lost a first set 6-1 or 6-0. The other occasions were at the 2019 French Open (d. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova), the 2018 French Open (lost to Madison Keys) and the 2016 Australian Open (lost to Azarenka).
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Osaka now joins Sloane Stephens (2017) and Serena Williams (1999) as the third woman to have played four three-set matches en route to the title, the most matches played by a US Open winner among women in the Era. Open.
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Osaka is now the fifth woman since the Open Era began in 1968 to win her first three Grand Slam finals, joining Lindsay Davenport, Jennifer Capriati, Virginia Wade and Monica Seles. Seles tops the list, with six straight wins in major finals to start her career, while the rest have three of those wins to their name.
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Osaka improves to a 12-0 record in wins and losses in three sets in the majors since the start of the 2018 US Open. It is the most wins by a woman in that span.
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Azarenka, who played her first Grand Slam final since the 2013 US Open, now has a 0-3 record for wins and losses in the US Open finals. It’s the second-most losses without a win among women in the Open Era after Evonne Goolagong, who went 0-4 in US Open championship matches.
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Azarenka’s win-loss record in Grand Slams after winning the first set 6-0 or 6-1 now falls to 44-3. The last time she lost such a match was in 2009.
(Stats courtesy: ESPN Statistics and Information Group)
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