Naomi Osaka is a famous Japanese tennis player. Winner of three titles from the World Tennis Association. Winner of the 2018 US Open and 2019 Australian Open.
Biography
The future tennis player was born into an international family: her father Francois Leonard is from Haiti, and her mother Tamaki is Japanese. Naomi was born in October 1997 on the sixteenth in the small Japanese town of Chuo-ku. She, following the example of her older sister Marie, began to play tennis, but there was no particular desire to become a professional athlete. Naomi wanted to become a sports agent. Despite this, Osaka Jr. began to show incredible results and soon began to play tennis much better than her older sister. Today Naomi is one of the best rackets in the world, and her sister Marie has never even once made it into the top 100 tennis players in her entire career.
Career
The talented athlete gained wide popularity in 2014, when she made her way to the US Open and sensationally beat the nineteenth world racket Samantha Stosur there.
In 2018, Naomi achieved a good result by qualifying for the championship in Australia. Having reached the fourth round, she lost to the first racket of the world at that time, Romanian athlete Simone Halep.
At the championship, which was held in Dubai, Naomi reached the quarterfinals, where she met with the Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina. In a tense struggle, the Japanese woman lost to a more eminent rival.
2018 ended with a huge achievement for Osaka. At the US Open, she managed to get to the final stage, where she met her childhood idol, Serena Williams. The legendary Serena lost to an ambitious athlete, losing in two sets in a row. Naomi not only won the coveted trophy for herself, but also became the first and only athlete from Japan who managed to win the Grand Slam trophy.
2019 began with a triumph for the Japanese woman. At a tournament in Australia, she managed to get to the final and defeat the formidable Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova there, thereby achieving a second consecutive victory in the Grand Slam tournaments.
The famous tennis player continues her performances, and after the last calculations of the rating, she deservedly takes the first line among all professional tennis players. She has only three won WTA titles, but she is only 21 years old.
Personal life
Naomi Osaka recently made it to the tennis Olympus and there is very little information about her private life. The girl is not married and devotes all her time to sports, although in a recent interview she admitted that her father was furious when he learned about Naomi's affair with an African American, and she has not maintained close relations with her parents for almost 10 years. The idol of the charming tennis player from early childhood is Serena Williams, and the famous final match of the US Open, where she managed to defeat her idol, Osaka calls "a dream match."
