Empress. Ten amazing achievements of Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open
After winning a 6/4, 6/3 win over Jennifer Brady in the Australian Open final last Saturday, Naomi Osaka won her fourth Grand Slam title and inscribed her name even deeper in history books. Most fans of tennis betting from the site https://rocketbet.ru/tennis/ were not surprised by her victory.
Here are 10 things that Osaka has achieved with her major triumph:
Naomi is the seventh active female and male tennis player to have won four Grand Slam titles.
She is the fourth active tennis player after Serena Williams (23), Venus Williams (7) and Kim Clijsters (4), as well as seventh overall when you include Roger Federer (20), Rafael Nadal (20) and Novak Djokovic (18) …
The Japanese is only the third player in history to win her first four major finals.
The other two are Federer, who won the first seven before losing the 2006 French Open final to Nadal, and Monica Seles, who won the first six before losing to Steffi Graf in the 1992 Wimbledon final.
Naomi is still invincible if she makes it to the Major’s quarterfinals.
Only four times did she reach the quarter-finals of “Slam” – at the US Open 2018, Australian Open 2019, US Open 2020 and Australian Open 2021, and all four times raised the trophy on her head.
Osaka has now won four of the last six big hard majors.
She also won 33 of her last 35 matches on hard, losing only to Belinda Bencic in the fourth round of the 2019 US Open – 5/7, 4/6 and Corey Goff in the third round of the Australian Open-2020 – 3/6, 4/6 …
The Japanese woman is the 11th woman in the Open Era to save the match point on her way to the main title.
Osaka retired from a double matchball in the fourth round in Melbourne against Garbina Mugurua at 3/5, 15:40 in the third set – she won four games in a row, winning 4/6, 6/4, 7/5.
Now Naomi has a win / lose balance of 45: 1 if she wins the first set of the match on the Helmet.
Her only failure at the Major was a 6/4, 2/6, 3/6 defeat to Simona Halep in the third round of Roland Garros in 2016.
Osaka has won 39 of its last 40 Tours matches since winning the starting set.
Since mid-May 2019, her only defeat after winning the first game occurred in the Brisbane semifinals in January 2020, when she lost 7/6 (10), 6/7 (3), 2/6 to Karolina Plishkova.
Now the Japanese have a balance of 13: 0 in three-set matches at the “majors” since the beginning of 2018.
The last three-set match she lost in the Helmet was against Kaia Kanepi in the third round of the 2017 US Open.
Naomi leaves Melbourne with a 21-game winning streak.
She hasn’t lost in over a year, and her last defeat came on February 7, 2020 to Sarah Sorribes-Tormo in a Billie Jean King Cup match on clay. This is the longest WTA winning streak since Serena Williams won 27 games in a row from October 2014 to May 2015.
Osaka finished second in the WTA rankings again.
This is her highest position in almost a year and a half – the last time she entered the Top 2 when she was the number one in the world for two weeks of the US Open 2019.
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