NEW YORK, September 1, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 1 Naomi Osaka rose to the occasion of playing before a sellout Labor Day weekend crowd of 23,771 fans that featured the defending United States Open champion against American teen […]
WUHAN, August 29, 2019 (Press Release) World No.1 Naomi Osaka has been awarded a wildcard into this year’s Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open by the organisers of the USD$2.8 million WTA Premier 5 tournament, which begins on September 22nd. Reigning US Open […]
NEW YORK, August 27, 2019 Naomi Osaka made a winning return to the Arthur Ashe Stadium winning her first-round match on Tuesday against unseeded Anna Blinkova of Russia 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2 to kick off her US Open title defense. The […]
NEW YORK, August 26, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Last year, Naomi Osaka won the United States Open women’s singles title in a 6-2, 6-4 stunning upset of Serena Williams that ended after a heated dispute between the 23-time Grand Slam […]
PARIS, May 30, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) When top seed Naomi Osaka and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka, both two-time major champions, squared off in the first match on Day 5 at Roland Garros, a familiar pattern developed for the […]
PARIS, May 28, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) World No. 1 Naomi Osaka arguably played one of her worst sets of tennis in recent memory during her first-round match against 90th-ranked Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia at Roland Garros on Tuesday […]
STUTTGART, April 27, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) At about the same time that Petra Kvitova and Kiki Bertens were taking Centre Court inside Porsche Arena to play their semifinal match at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Saturday afternoon, bigger news […]
STUTTGART, April 25, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Hsieh Su-Wei was probably not the ideal opponent for World No. 1 Naomi Osaka of Japan to begin her clay-court season against at the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart. After all, the No. […]
STUTTGART, April 23, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Although the World No. 1 ranking is in play this week at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, a couple of last-minute withdrawals are making headlines as the European clay-court season gets underway in […]
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) News that two-time Grand Slam champion and current World No. 1 Naomi Osaka had left Adidas to join Nike’s elite roster of women’s and men’s tennis professionals broke Thursday night while the two-time […]
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