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Osaka, who started a decisive match, showed her character and broke 1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3 to Victoria Azarenko, who recovered after giving birth and injuries and played the final of the second consecutive tournament.
The Belarusian, who has recently received much praise, won the Southern and Western Open tournament at the end of August.
There, Azarenka also had to fight Osaka, but the Japanese later refused to play due to injury.
Osaka became the first tennis player under the age of 23 since 2008 to win three Great Accent tournaments. This has been done by Maria Sharapova in the last decade.
Throughout the US Open, Osaka wore a black T-shirt of Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who died earlier this year.
The world’s highest-earning tennis player said after the final that Bryant’s memory gave her strength.
“You had seven matches, seven masks, seven names. What was the message you wanted to send?”
Naomi Osaka: “Well what was the message you got? … I feel like the point is to get people to start talking.”
(via @ United States Open)pic.twitter.com/dJK93tYdAq
– Bleach Report (@BleacherReport) September 12, 2020
Throughout the tournament, Osaka also sent a strong message in the fight against racism: He appeared on a tennis court wearing seven different masks with the names of blacks killed by the American police.
“What was the message you received?”
– Naomi Osaka pic.twitter.com/ptGfX4t0MT– Nicole Williams (@ndpnicky) September 12, 2020
Germany’s Alexander Zverev and Austrian Dominic Thiem will meet in the final of the men’s competition at the US Open on Sunday.
The US Open prize pool is $ 53.3 million.
Naomi Osaka wore this Kobe Bryant jersey after all her matches at the US Open
She said it gave her strength 💜💛
(via @naomiosaka) pic.twitter.com/4roByGCN9p– Bleach Report (@BleacherReport) September 13, 2020
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