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Naomi Osaka won her third Grand Slam title in two years after the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open. Image: keystone
US Open: Naomi Osaka is crowned Queen of New York
Bravo Naomi Osaka! The 22-year-old Japanese won the United States Tennis Open for the second time since 2018.
Successful in the final Naomi osaka a miraculous resurrection. She stayed behind 34 minutes with 1: 6, 0: 2 in residue, but sat with after an hour and 53 minutes 1: 6, 6: 3, 6: 3 by.
The final did not live up to expectations. A great final was expected because both Osaka and Asarenka, both former world No. 1s, had survived the month unbeaten in the New York bubble. Asarenka and Osaka reached the final in the preparatory tournament. The Japanese did not compete for this due to thigh problems.
The final was rarely a first-rate final because both players were never at their best at the same time. First, the 31-year-old Belarusian won eight of the first nine games; Osaka then dominated with 12 of 16 wins.
Naomi Osaka won her third Grand Slam title in two years after the US Open 2018 and the Australian Open 2019. The young Japanese woman made history, not only because she was unbeatable from the quarter-finals in major tournaments, but because she was the first tennis player Asian professional (men and women) to win three major titles.
Despite the final defeat, Viktoria Asarenka dominated New York’s high-security tennis zone last month. She wrote one of those dishwasher stories that Americans love so much. Asarenka said before the final that seven and a half years ago, when he won the Australian Open for the second time and regularly put the elite on hard courts, he expected to reach the final at the US Open at some point.
In her prime, Asarenka never realized this goal because she was too stubborn, too ambitious, and pushing herself too hard. For the 2020 US Open, no one had the 31-year-old Belarusian on the bill.
Asarenka was out for over a year in 2016 due to the baby’s break. She later stayed away from the women’s tour due to a custody dispute over her son Leo. From the beginning of August 2019 until she entered the New York “Bubble”, she did not win a single single for more than a year. With twelve wins in a row (including the forfait win over Osaka in the preparatory tournament), she improved in the rankings from 59th (start of the Cincinnati tournament) to 27th (start of the US Open) to 14th in the world (after the US Open).
Tournament winner Naomi Osaka improved in ranking from ninth to fourth place. (sda)
