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Naomi Osaka - A year like a "U"

As in the previous year Naomi Osaka could not play through the WTA final tournament until the end. The Japanese moved after their retreat in Shenzhen an ambivalent annual balance.

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Naomi Osaka is satisfied - but not quite
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Naomi Osaka is satisfied - but not quite

Anyone who has won a Grand Slam tournament, may basically be satisfied with the course of his / her playing time. Especially since Naomi Osaka right at the beginning of the year at the Australian Open, the suspicion that she was a "one-hit-Wonder" convincingly refuted. With the final victory against Petra Kvitova in Melbourne, after the Japanese had doctored a few months earlier at the US Open in a remarkable final Serena Williams.

At the beginning of 2019 it looked very much like there would be no way for Naomi Osaka to get away in the women's tennis for the next few years, except of course for the minor slip-ups. In fact, there was a rather massive downtrend that characterized the 22-year-old at her last press conference of the year following the injury-related retreat at the WTA Finals in Shenzhen as follows. "It feels like my year was like a 'U'," Osaka said. "The Australian Open, great. Europe was the lower part of the Us. Not the continent, only my season there. And Asia was again the other half of the Us. "

Osaka out after beating Kvitova

Two quarter-finals were the only ones that brought Osaka in Madrid and Rome on their credit side, in Wimbledon came out already in round one against Yulia Putintseva.

In contrast, the current number three of the WTA charts at the end of the tennis year showed once again great, secured not only the title in her native city of Osaka, but also those in Beijing. No wonder that Naomi Osaka had traveled to Shenzhen with great ambitions. Until after her first match against Petra Kvitova, which she won in three sets, she had to retire because of a shoulder injury, as in 2018. "That's annoying, of course, because I actually played well. I wanted to win here. "

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