Naomi Osaka feels like a different player and person on her return to Wimbledon and is looking forward to sharing the experience with her baby daughter. The Japanese player has not appeared at the All England Club for five years having struggled with her mental health and injury before giving birth to Shai last July. […]
Naomi Osaka faces reigning French Open champ Iga Swiatek on the court this Wednesday. (Antonio Borga/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images) The 2024 French Open at Roland Garros is now in full swing, and it’s time for Iga Swiatek’s next match. The No. 1 seed on the women’s side and two-time French Open champion is looking to […]
Naomi Osaka faces reigning French Open champ Iga Swiatek on the court this Wednesday. (Antonio Borga/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images) The 2024 French Open at Roland Garros is now in full swing, and it’s time for Iga Swiatek’s next match. The No. 1 seed on the women’s side and two-time French Open champion is looking to […]
Tokyo — The slow demise of a stray whale that spent its last days circling Osaka Bay not only saddened TV viewers across Japan, it also alarmed cetacean experts who called the whale the latest casualty of a warming planet. “Whales used to lose their way every three years or so,” Yasunobu Nabeshima, a visiting […]
Naomi Osaka’s run at the Qatar Open ended in the quarter-finals with a narrow defeat by Karolina Pliskova. The former world number one was through to the last eight at a tournament for the first time in nearly two years following her maternity break but she could not capitalise on good starts in both sets. […]
Naomi Osaka fell to defeat against Danielle Collins in her opening match at the Abu Dhabi Open. The four-time grand slam champion made her comeback last month following the birth of her first child, reaching the second round of the Brisbane International before losing a close contest to Caroline Garcia in her opening match at […]
Naomi Osaka’s grand slam return ended prematurely in a first-round loss at the Australian Open to 16th seed Caroline Garcia. Playing in her first major tournament since the US Open in 2022 following the birth of daughter Shai last summer, Osaka gave Garcia a good fight but fell to a 6-4 7-6 (2) defeat on […]
Nostalgia and memories of past glories have accompanied Naomi Osaka on her return to the Australian Open but the two-time champion is determined to be patient with herself. Osaka is playing her first grand slam tournament since the US Open in 2022 after giving birth to daughter Shai last summer. The winner at Melbourne Park […]
Naomi Osaka’s first tournament appearance in more than two years has ended with a second-round defeat to 16th seed Karolina Pliskova at the Brisbane International. Following an opening-round win over Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch on Monday, Osaka looked to keep her momentum going against the Czech world number 39 but was ultimately outlasted 3-6 7-6 (4) […]
Naomi Osaka made a winning return to tennis as she beat Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch 6-3 7-6 in the first round of the Brisbane International. The former world number one has not played since withdrawing from the Pan Pacific Trophy with a knee injury in September 2021. She became a mother for the first time in […]