Osaka defeats the “legend”! World No. 3 Naomi Osaka (23 = Nissin Foods) won the championship for the second time in two years. In the replay of the 2018 US Open, the “Legend of Living”, who has won 23 times in four major tournaments, won the 11th position to Serena Williams (USA) 6-3, 6-4 in a row. It has also been confirmed that he will return to 2nd place in the last announced world ranking after this tournament. In the final scheduled for the 20th, he will face Brady (USA), who is ranked 24th. The result of the match is 2 wins and 1 loss for Osaka.

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We press for a generational change in the “Legend of Living”. Serena has won 23 times in four major tournaments. The weight of his story hit, but Osaka was unfazed. “The feeling of intimidation on the other side of the network is not strange.” Enduring the pressure, he completely bounced off a game of gachinko.

After the match, Serena hugged her gently as if she had realized a change of generations. I thanked him with a bow. “It’s a dream moment. It doesn’t seem to be a reality,” he smiled and dismissed Serena.

The first five games of the first set were all. The second point of the first game that started with Osaka’s serve. On the second serve, Serena threw a return back. “A loose ball will kill you. I even felt scared.” The first serve does not go in, probably for fear of intimidation. In my first three serve games, I have only a 34% chance of landing the first serve. However, it was the second serve, which had been going strong for about a year and a half, that saved him.

In the first three serve games, the second serve increased the score rate by approximately 50%. Especially my service game that I can never stop 2 oars. Of the eight second serves, seven were scored at 75%. When he led from 0-2 to 3-2, he took 5 games in a row, leading to the first set first.

The second serve combines three types of rotation, horizontal, vertical and diagonal, with three courses: the center, the outside and the opponent’s body. Nine changing spheres. I made the most of it and blocked Serena’s return. Previously, there was one type of vertical rotation and two courses. The effect of increasing the variations was great.

After advancing to the quarterfinals of the big four tournaments, he will never lose. Of course, the last three finals are undefeated. “Nobody remembers the runner-up. They only remember the winner.” The final opponent is Brady, who won the United States Semifinal last year in a fierce battle. “It was a great game, but I grew from there.” There is no blind spot in Osaka, which inherited the generation of “legend”.[Tadahiro Yoshimatsu]

○… In Victoria, where the site is located, the closure that had blocked the state border for infectious disease control was lifted for the first time in 6 days. The tournament also has a maximum of 7,477 people a day, but the audience has returned since the 12th. When Osaka entered the court, he looked around the whole venue and the spectators cheered him on saying, “The customers are back. I wanted to have fun. and have a good game. “