Tennis: Four-time Grand Slam Champion Naomi Osaka becomes mother
Naomi Osaka has been blessed with motherhood in Los Angeles where she has given birth to a baby girl. Naomi announced her pregnancy in January and said that she and her partner rapper Cordae were expecting a child. The last Grand Slam title she won was the Australian Open 2021.
She participated last time in the Pan Pacific Open in 2022. She went to defend her U.S. Open title in 2021 and crashed out in the third round.
She is ranked 436th by the WTA. After facing defeat in the U.S. Open, Naomi Osaka took a break for five months.
She is the first Asia player to be named number one in singles by the WTA. The Japanese has won two U.S. Open singles and two Australian Open singles.
She has also won two times at the Premier Mandatory level. Naomi Osaka hit the headlines on her maiden WTA tour in 2014 when she thrashed former U.S. Open champion Samantha Stosur in the Stanford Classic.
She won two major tournaments back-to-back at the U.S. Open in 2018 and the Australian Open in 2019. Thus, she also became the first woman after Jennifer Capriati in 2001 to win two consecutive major titles.
Two years after the Stanford Classic, she reached her first WTA final at the Pan Pacific Open in 2016. Naomi won her first WTA title at the Indiana Wells Open in 2018. She defeated the 23 Grand Slam titles winner Serena William and lifted the U.S.
Open singles the same year. 2021 was a very bad year for the Japanese player when she retired hurt from the French Open, dropped out of Wimbledon and crashed out early from the U.S. Open.
It was the time when she decided to take a break from tennis and focus on family and health. She became the first tennis player to light the Olympic cauldron in Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Time magazine included her in
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