Naomi Osaka is a famous Japanese tennis player. Winner of three titles of the World Tennis Association. Winner of the U.S. Open Tournament in 2018 and the Australian Open Tournament in 2019.
Biography
The future tennis player was born into an international family: her father Francois Leonard comes 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 racquets in the world, and her sister Marie has never been in the top 100 tennis players of her entire career.
Career
The talented athlete gained wide fame in 2014, when she made her way to the US Open and sensationally beat Samantha Stosur, the nineteenth racket of the world.
In 2018, Naomi achieved a good result by qualifying for the championship in Australia. Reaching the fourth round, she lost the first at that time racket of the world, the Romanian athlete Simone Halep.
At the championship, which was held in Dubai, Naomi reached the quarter finals, where she met with Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina. In a tense struggle, the Japanese 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 with the idol of her childhood - Serena Williams. The legendary Serena lost the victory to an ambitious athlete, losing in two sets in a row. Naomi not only obtained the coveted trophy for herself, but also became the first and only athlete from Japan who managed to win the trophy in the framework of the Grand Slam.
2019 began for the Japanese with triumph. At a tournament in Australia, she managed to get to the finals and defeat the formidable Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova there, thereby achieving her second consecutive victory in Grand Slam tournaments.
The famous tennis player continues to perform, and after the last counts of the rating, she deservedly takes the first place among all professional tennis players. She has won only three WTA titles, but she is only 21 years old.
