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Naomi Osaka

Osaka at 2017 Wimbledon Championships
Full name	Naomi Osaka
Country (sports)	Japan
Residence	Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.
Born	(1997-10-16) 16 October 1997 (age 27) Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Turned pro	September 2013
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Coach	Sascha Bajin (2018–present)
Prize money	$7,032,734
Official website	naomiosaka.com
Singles
Career record	170–114
Career titles	2 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 4 (8 October 2018)
Current ranking	No. 4 (8 October 2018)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian Open	4R (2018)
French Open	3R (2016, 2018)
Wimbledon	3R (2017, 2018)
US Open	W (2018)
Other tournaments
Doubles
Career record	2–14
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 324 (3 April 2017)
Current ranking	No. 904 (10 September 2018)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	1R (2017)
French Open	2R (2016)
Wimbledon	1R (2017)
US Open	1R (2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	WG II PO (2018), Record 5–1
Hopman Cup	RR (2018)
Last updated on: 1 October 2018.

Naomi Osaka (大坂 なおみ, Ōsaka Naomi, born 16 October 1997) is a professional tennis player who represents Japan in competition. She is the reigning US Open champion in women's singles. Osaka has a career-high Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking of No. 4 in the world, which she achieved in October 2018. She has won two titles and reached four finals on the WTA Tour.

Born in Osaka, Japan, to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother, Osaka has lived in the United States from an early age. She first came to prominence at the age of sixteen when she defeated former US Open champion Samantha Stosur at the 2014 Bank of the West Classic, which was her first time in the main draw of a WTA tournament. She reached her first WTA final two years later at the 2016 Toray Pan Pacific Open, which took her into the top 50 in the world rankings. Her breakthrough year was 2018. In March she won Indian Wells, beating former world number ones Maria Sharapova and Karolína Plíšková in the first round and quarterfinals respectively, before defeating current No. 1 Simona Halep in the semifinals. In September, she won the 2018 US Open, defeating 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams in the final, and becoming the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles tournament.

Osaka has an aggressive playing style, with a powerful serve that can reach 125 miles per hour (200 km/h).

Personal life and family

Naomi Osaka was born in Chūō-ku, Osaka to a Haitian father, Leonard "San" François, and a Japanese mother, Tamaki Osaka. Her father was born in Haiti and went to college in New York before moving to Japan, where he met her mother and later married her. She has an older sister, Mari Osaka, who is also a professional tennis player, and they have played together in doubles. The two girls were given their mother's maiden name for practical reasons when the family lived in Japan.

In racially homogeneous Japan, Osaka is considered hāfu, which is Japanese for biracial. In a 2016 interview, Osaka said: "When I go to Japan, people are confused. From my name, they don’t expect to see a black girl." Her Japanese grandfather was furious when he found out that her mother was romantically involved with a black man. As a result of the interracial relationship, her mother did not have contact with her family for over ten years.

When she was three, the family moved to the United States, where they lived initially in Long Island, New York, and from 2006 in Florida. She attended Elmont Alden Terrace Primary and Broward Virtual Middle and High School.

Osaka has been described as Japanese, American, Japanese-American, American-Japanese, Haitian-Japanese, and Haitian-American-Japanese. Being raised in the United States while having a mother who is Japanese and a father who is Haitian-American contributes to Osaka's multi-ethnic identity. Osaka has dual Japanese and American citizenship but she is not fully fluent in Japanese.

Career

Early years

Osaka starts tennis with the influence of his father who saw Venus and Serena Williams who won the 1999 French Open Women's Doubles. Osaka practiced at Utsubo Tennis Center in Japan. USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Long Island. and Pembroke Pines' public court in Florida. She trained with Patrick Tauma at the ISP Academy, and with Harold Solomon at the Florida Tennis SBT Academy, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and later at the ProWorld Tennis Academy in Delray Beach. In 2007, she won the National Public Parks Girls' 14 Doubles Championships with her sister Mari.

Although Osaka has both Japanese and American citizenship, her father chose to register her as Japanese when she began her career, aged 13. She made her debut at the 2011 ITF Women's Circuit in a first round qualifying match in Montego Bay on 17 October 2011, the day after her fourteenth birthday.

2013–14: WTA Tour main-draw debut

Osaka turned pro in September 2013. Her WTA Tour main-draw debut was at the 2014 Bank of the West Classic, after she defeated Alla Kudryavtseva and Petra Martić in qualifying. In the first round proper she met 2011 US Open champion Samantha Stosur and came from a set down to defeat the Australian in a match lasting 21⁄2 hours.

2015–16: First WTA final and top-50 ranking

During the 2015 WTA Finals she won the Rising Stars Invitational exhibition tournament, defeating Caroline Garcia in the final.

In her Grand Slam debut, Osaka reached the third round of the Australian Open as a qualifier by defeating Donna Vekic and 18th seed Elina Svitolina in straight sets. She lost in the third round to former champion Victoria Azarenka in straight sets. During the clay season, Osaka reached the third round of the French Open. She defeated 32nd seed and future champion Jeļena Ostapenko and Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, both in straight sets. She then lost to former finalist and sixth seed Simona Halep in three sets, despite capturing the first set.

After an injury prevented her from participating in Wimbledon, Osaka reached the third round at the US Open. She came from a set down to defeat 28th seed CoCo Vandeweghe and then defeated Duan Yingying in straight sets, before falling to American Madison Keys in three sets. She had led 5–1 in the third set.

She started the fall Asian swing competing at the 2016 Japan Women's Open, where she conclusively beat Anett Kontaveit in the first round, before falling to Zhang Shuai in straight sets. The next week saw Osaka's breakthrough at the Toray Pan Pacific Open, where she was given a wildcard and went on to defeat fellow countrywoman Misaki Doi, Dominika Cibulkova, Aliaksandra Sasnovich, and Elina Svitolina to reach her first WTA final. In the final, she fell to former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets. With this result, Osaka entered the top 50 of the WTA rankings.

Osaka was voted the newcomer of the year at the 2016 WTA Awards.

2017: High-profile matches

At the Australian Open, Osaka won her first-round match against Luksika Kumkhum, before losing to Johanna Konta in straight sets. She also lost in the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships to Christina McHale. She had multiple second-round and third-round losses at Indian Wells, the Miami Open, and the Volvo Car Open before she qualified for the Women's Stuttgart Open and losing to Konta again in the first round. She was unsuccessful in the rest of her clay-court season. Osaka lost in the first round of the Nottingham Open, in straight sets. At the Birmingham Open she lost to Lucie Safarova in round two. She also lost to Caroline Wozniacki in straight sets at the Eastbourne International.

At Wimbledon, Osaka defeated Sara Sorribes Tormo and Barbora Strýcová before losing to Venus Williams in the third round.

At the US Open, she had the biggest win of her career to that point, defeating defending champion Angelique Kerber in straight sets in the first round. She then defeated Denisa Allertová in three sets before falling to six-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist Kaia Kanepi. In October, she beat Venus Williams in the second round of the Hong Kong Open before being beaten in the quarterfinal by the eventual winner, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

2018: Indian Wells and US Open champion, top 4 ranking

Sascha Bajin, former hitting partner of Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka and Caroline Wozniacki, became Osaka's coach at the start of the 2018 season. Osaka entered the season ranked 68. After triumphs over Kristína Kučová and 16th seed Elena Vesnina, Osaka reached the fourth round of a grand slam for the first time when she beat Ashleigh Barty in the third round of the Australian Open. She was beaten by Simona Halep in the fourth round. Competing as a wildcard in the Dubai Tennis Championships, she defeated Kristina Mladenovic and Anett Kontaveit before losing to Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinal.

In the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, she beat former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova in the first round. She said afterward, "There are three people I wanted to play, Venus , and Serena. Now I'm just waiting to play Serena." She continued her good form with straight-set wins over 31st seed Agnieszka Radwańska and qualifier Sachia Vickery to advance to the fourth round, where she battled through three tough sets to overcome Maria Sakkari, thus advancing to her first Premier Mandatory tournament quarterfinal, where she upset former world No. 1 Karolína Plíšková in straight sets to advance to her first Premier Mandatory semifinal. She then beat world No. 1 Simona Halep in straight sets to advance to the biggest final of her career to date. Osaka won BNP Paribas Open by defeating Russian 20th seed Daria Kasatkina in straight sets.

In March 2018, Osaka finally drew a spot against her idol, former world No. 1 Serena Williams, in the first round of the Miami Open. Osaka, ranked world No. 22, was unseeded, as was Williams, who was playing her fourth comeback match following the birth of her first child. Osaka won in straight sets. She then lost in the second round to fourth seed Elina Svitolina.

By May 2018, Osaka had moved from Fort Lauderdale to Boca Raton, Florida, and was training at Evert Tennis Academy there, while playing for Japan.

Osaka matched her 2016 performance at the French Open, reaching the third round before losing to 13th seed Madison Keys. In the grass-court season, she reached the semifinals of the Nottingham Open, where she lost to top seed Ashleigh Barty. She was seeded 18th at Wimbledon, and matched her 2017 performance by reaching the third round where she was defeated by 11th seed and eventual champion Angelique Kerber.

After a string of early losses at Washington, the Rogers Cup, and Cincinnati, Osaka saw a return to form at the US Open, defeating Laura Siegemund and Julia Glushko to match her 2016 and 2017 third-round performances. She then recorded a victory over Aliaksandra Sasnovich where she lost no games, her best ever match win. In the fourth round, she overcame 26th seed Aryna Sabalenka in three sets. In the quarterfinals, Osaka beat unseeded Lesia Tsurenko in just 58 minutes, yielding only two games. With this win, she reached her first major semifinal. In the semifinals, she defeated Madison Keys in straight sets, becoming the first Japanese woman to reach a Grand Slam final.

In the final, Osaka defeated Serena Williams in straight sets to claim the 2018 US Open trophy. She became the first Japanese tennis player to win a major tennis tournament. Her victory was marred by an on-court dispute between Williams and the umpire, which led to boos from the crowd both during the match and at the award ceremony. Osaka later said that the win was "a little bit bittersweet", and that she tried to keep from thinking about it over the following days because "it wasn't necessarily the happiest memory" for her.

Her first tournament after the US Open was the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, where she had reached the final in her breakout tournament in 2016. Her good form continued as she dominated in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, reaching the final without dropping a set. In the final, Karolína Plíšková defeated Osaka in straight sets. Osaka became the third player to qualify for the 2018 WTA Finals, after Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep, with a first round victory over Zarina Diyas in the 2018 China Open in October. She beat Danielle Collins in the second round, Julia Görges in the third round, and Zhang Shuai (after trailing 1–4 and 3–5 in the final set) in the quarter-final. She was then defeated by Anastasija Sevastova in the semifinals. Due to her strong performance and Elina Svitolina and Petra Kvitová's early losses, Osaka rose to a new high ranking of World No. 4. She thus matched the record of both Kimiko Date and Kei Nishikori as the highest ranked Japanese player of all time.

National representation

Fed Cup

Having not previously played in Japan, Osaka was spotted in qualifying at the 2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo by Shinji Yoshikawa, the Japan Fed Cup team coach, who reported to the Japan Tennis Association that she had "awesome talent". She was first selected for the Japan Fed Cup team in 2017. She had three consecutive wins in the Asia/Oceania Zone, against Khim Iglupas of the Philippines, Karman Thandi of India, and Zhang Kailin of China, as Japan won the group 3–0. In the play-offs she beat Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan, but the team was not promoted. In the 2018 World Group II Play-offs, Osaka beat Heather Watson and lost to Johanna Konta of the Great Britain team, as Japan was promoted to World Group II.

Hopman Cup

In the 2018 Hopman Cup, Osaka played two singles matches and two doubles matches (with Yūichi Sugita) in Group B, against Switzerland and Russia, where she won only one singles match. In the doubles match with Switzerland, she served an "ace" against men's world no. 2, Roger Federer.

Playing style and equipment

Osaka is an aggressive, offensive baseline player, able to hit winners off both sides. She likes to attack with her big forehand, but she can plant her feet and rip her backhand for winners as well. Her serve is consistent and very strong – up to 125 miles per hour (200 km/h). She plays with the Yonex Ezone 98 racquet. Her strings are Yonex POLYTOUR PRO 125 and REXIS 130.

Coaches

Osaka was first coached by her father Leonard Francois; from 2013, by Patrick Tauma; from 2014, by Harold Solomon; from 2016, by David Taylor; and from the beginning of 2018, by Aleksandar ("Sascha") Bajin.

Awards

• WTA Awards 2016 Newcomer of the Year

Career statistics

Grand Slam tournament finals

Result	Year	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	2018	US Open	Hard	Serena Williams	6–2, 6–4

Grand Slam performance singles timeline

Current through 2018 US Open.

Management and sponsors

In 2016, Osaka was managed by Daniel Balog of Octagon. In 2018, Osaka signed a worldwide marketing and management agreement with IMG. Osaka has been sponsored by racket manufacturer Yonex since 2008. She has been sponsored by Adidas from 2014, by noodle maker Nissin Foods and Japanese broadcaster Wowow since 2016, by Citizen Watch since 2018, and by Japanese auto maker Nissan, also since 2018.

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External links

• Official website Template:En icon Template:Jp icon
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• Naomi Osaka at the Women's Tennis Association
• Naomi Osaka at the International Tennis Federation
• Naomi Osaka at the Billie Jean King Cup
• Naomi Osaka – Japan Tennis Association
• Naomi Osaka (JPN) – Yonex

Awards
Preceded by Daria Gavrilova	WTA Newcomer of the Year 2016	Succeeded by Catherine Bellis

v t e Women's Tennis Association: Top Japanese female singles tennis players
as of 2 December 2024
1. Moyuka Uchijima (56 1) 2. Naomi Osaka (60 ) 3. Aoi Ito (127 2) 4. Ena Shibahara (137 3) 5. Nao Hibino (147 3)
6. Sara Saito (154 3) 7. Mai Hontama (156 1) 8. Sayaka Ishii (204 1) 9. Kyōka Okamura (236 1) 10. Haruka Kaji (249 6)

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• American female tennis players
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• American sportspeople of Haitian descent
• Hopman Cup competitors
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• Japanese female tennis players
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• Japanese-American tennis players
• Living people
• People with acquired American citizenship
• Sportspeople from Osaka
• US Open (tennis) champions
• Grand Slam (tennis) champions in women's singles