New York – A lot happened to Naomi Osaka – On tennis, away from tennis – since I first played Coco Goff in We are open Again in 2019.
During that time, Osaka won the presence of prizes in the four major championships to raise her total career to four, which helped stir a global conversation about mental health by revealing that she felt anxiety and depression, and took a series of breaks from the tour and became a mother.
the Gauff vs. Osaka Matchup in the fourth round In Flushing Meadows on Monday as a reminder – for them, to others – from that night six years ago, as well as everything that has happened since then.
“Just to be at this stage of my life and play it again, Osaka said,” Frankly, for me … a kind of distinctive. “
Osaka was 21 years old, and the ruling champion in the US Open and Australian Open Championship; Jouf was fifteen years old and played in the second Grand Slam championship and the first in New York. Osaka won in successive groups at Arthur Ash, but what was not forgotten more What happened after the last point.
Jouf was crying, Osaka went to unify her and suggested that she was addressing the crowd – very unusual for the loser in the match. But Osaka knew that the fans wanted to hear from the American young man who was already offering signs that she would become the star she was today.
“I remember it was a difficult moment for me, because it was a burdened match. I remember looking back. I think I was subjected to great pressure on myself, I am thinking that I may have had the opportunity at that moment to do something, which I certainly did,” Joff said on Saturday, but I think I felt more expecting that I had, perhaps, maybe perhaps the belief. “
Osaka recalls identifying the amount of talents and balance that Jouf possesses for such a young player.
“I thought she just dealt with herself well,” said Osaka, who was 23 in Flaching Midoz and recently started working with the former coach Ija Sequic, Thomas Wiktorovski.
After winning the United States again in 2020, Osaka won the Australian Open in January 2021. In the next Grand Slam, she withdrew before her match in the second round and explained the struggles outside the court that she was dealing with, then took the first handful of mental health break.
The Australian Open, 4/2 years ago, was the last specialty as Osaka has reached the fourth round until now. It was outside the round of part of this extension during maternity leave.
On Saturday, I talked about “the journey to return here.”
“I feel happy,” Osaka, 27, said, because I feel that all of my hard work is rising for something. “
Jouf, now 21, He won the US Open in 2023 And the French opens this in June and becomes No. 3 in New York while working with him Biomatic mechanics expert to re -equip its problematic service.
“Naomi, I am not close or anything, but we are definitely friendly with each other. I support her from afar in all the things that she did inside and outside the court.”
“It will be a great type of DEJA Vu-Type,” she said, believing that this match will be in Ash, “but we hope it will be a different result.”
Written by Howard Fidrich
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