Naomi Osaka

Last year, Haitian-Japanese Tennis player Naomi Osaka made history when she beat Serena Williams to win her first US Open title. This year, Osaka is back as defending champion.

The knee injury that forced her to retire during her quarterfinals match against Sofia Kenin in the Western & Southern Open is no longer is so painful.

Naomi Osaka is ready to kick some ass at the 2019 US Open in Flushing Meadows.

A very comfortable Naomi Osaka told reporters Friday she feels comfortable "not because I won last year. It's because I have been kind of hitting on these courts since I was a kid. I used to train here."

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Haitian-Japanese Naomi Osaka lost her first Tennis match to Serena Wiliams at the Rogers Cup quarterfinals after beating her twice, once in last year's US Open championship.

Osaka was good but Serena Williams was just better. 12 Aces by Williams compared to zero from Osaka. Serena Williams knocks out Naomi Osaka 6-3 6-4 to reach the Rogers Cup semifinals

Replying to Naomi Osaka calling her Wiliams her "Tenis Mom," Serana Williams said "that was very kind of her to me her Tennis mom," however, It's more like "Tennis GrandMa," she said.

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Haitian-Japanese world number one Tennis star Naomi Osaka has pulled out of the Italian Open before Thursday's quarter-finals with an injury just one week before the start of the French Open.

Osaka who played two amazing matches yesterday to secure securing her top spot at the French Omen withdrew because of a "pain in her right hand," the organizers announced.

Also read Haitian-Japanese Naomi Osaka wanted to go No 1 seed at the French Open and she will do just that

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Haitian-Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka set her goat to go to the French Open while holding on the her number one spot and she did. Osaka will be top seed at the French Open after her beating Dominika Cibulkova and Mihaela Buzarnescu on the same day in Rome.

Considered a milestone on her to do list, a journalist asked Naomi Osaka what will it mean to her to go into the French Open top seed after saying in Madrid that's what she wanted. Osaka said:

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Haitian-Japanese world No.1 tennis player Naomi Osaka revealed the reasons she split with Adidas and become an ambassador for Nike. Here is what she had to say...

" I don't know. I guess it's because growing up all of the people I idolized were wearing Nike," she said to a journalist who asked her.

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Haitian Japanese tennis champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the 2019 Stuttgart Open, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, semi-final due to an abdominal injury.

After Osaka overturned a 5-1 third-set deficit to beat Donna Vekic in the Stuttgart quarter-finals, she said she felt some pain in her abdomen during the match.

"I woke up today and I had to roll out of bed," she said while speaking to the media. "I couldn't even practice because I can't even lift my upper body."

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Haitian-Japanese Naomi Osaka has just made her best comeback ever in a game of Tennis in her championship math against Donna Vekic at the 2019 Stuttgart Open.

She was down 5-1 on the final set and it looked like she was going to loose. Then out of nowhere, Naomi Osaka proved the world why she is number one.

Osaka battled back from 5-1 down in the final set to beat Donna Vekic 6-3 4-6 7-6 (7/4) on Friday to reach her first career clay court semi-final in Stuttgart.

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Haitian-Japanese world number one Tennis player Naomi Osaka has to deal with very important decision come October when she turns 22 years old. Will she keep her Japanese nationality or will she keep her American nationality?

The Japanese Nationality Law in 1985 requires any Japanese citizen who holds multiple citizenship to make a "declaration of choice" between the ages of 20 and 22.

So, Naomi Osaka, who will be 22 years old on October 16th, must make an important choice. She has to renounce either her Japanese nationality or her American citizenship.

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On February 11, 2019, Haitian-Japanese Tennis player Naomi Osaka suddenly decided to split up with her Coach Sascha Bajin, an announcement that sent the Tennis world buzzing.

This decision came just 16 days after Osaka won her second career Grand Slam title, the 2019 Australian Open, and months after winning her first, the 2018 US Open.

Coach Sascha Bajin took Naomi Osaka from world no. 68 to a 2-time Grand Slam champion. Why would she break such a winning combination?

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21 year old Haitian-Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka has just won her second Grand Slam championship back to back. Osaka is the 2019 Australian Open Champion and she is projected to become world No. 1 when the new statistics come out Monday on 28 January 2019.

After beating 23-time major champion Serena Williams in the US Open final to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles tournament, Osaka Czech Petra Kvitova in what journalist are calling a thrilling Australian Open final, 7-6, 5-7, 6-4 to claim the Australian Open trophy

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