Labubu was one of the talk points of the Net ended us open. So Naomi Osaka.
Seed no. 23 ensured that the heads are running with its moving run in New York before they fell in the semi -final against the local favorite Amanda Anisimova. From getting away in the low 800s after he had been for 17 months on the pregnancy leave of the game, Osaka rose to the 14th in the world ranking after her impressive performance in New York. The 27-year-old will strive to build on her form and put her way back to where she once belonged to the sport.
It is important that the former world no. 1 gets a lot of inspiration from its defeats. The most recent in the hands of Anisimova seems to have given her the conviction that she still has it in her to win Grand Slam titles.
Osaka went down in an almost three-hour battle despite the shooting of more aces than her opponent and committing less non-forced errors. She chose to concentrate on the positives despite the heartbreaking defeat.
“I don’t feel sad. I just feel that I did the best I could,” said Osaka after the game. “To be honest, it’s a bit inspiring for me because I make sure that I want to train and try to get better … Give it my very best chance and see what happens. I can’t be angry or upset on myself.”
She was away from the sport for a longer period after the birth of her daughter and only returned to the Tour in January 2024. However, the comeback was not flexible. She was unable to win the matches where she seemed the favorite and the ranking ladder sustained was slower than expected.
“When all the mothers came back (to the tour after the birth) and they did well from the bat, I had the feeling that something was wrong with me,” Osaka had said after her quarter -final victory over the 11th Seed Karolina Muchova.
“I know that Belinda (Bencic, who gave birth in April 2024) the semi -final of Wimbledon (2025, made her second Grand Slam, since I returned to the Tour). I just had the feeling that I lost a race in a kind of strange way. That was in my mind, and now I am here and I am here and I am here and I am here and I am here and I am and I am here.”
Before the defeat against Anisimova at the US Open seemed a loss of the second round for Emma Raducanu in Washington to have served her well in July.
“I called a round table from my team and I was just confused (over) how sure I was in myself,” said Osaka during the New York campaign. “Because, although I lost, I remember that I told them:” I think I can still beat someone from the basic line, and we just have to find out if I have to change my game plan or that I just have to do something new and different. “
That led to the decision to get in as her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski, who previously worked with Iga Swiatek. Osaka said that Wiktorowski had helped her to become more efficient when returning and to be patient in meetings. They have worked together in just two tournaments so far and the results have been impressive. Osaka reached the final of the Montreal Masters, who helped her to sow for the first time since the Australian Open 2022 at a Grand Slam. And her deep run in the last major of the season could offer the impetus she is looking for and the springboard can be for more success and possibly tournament dyemers.
“Far in the US Open was definitely a trust booster. But the season is not ready yet,” she said after the exit at the US Open. “I don’t know in which ranking I am ready, but I think I’m above that. Doing well in the Asian swing and then ending the rest of the year is now my goal,” Osaka said, looking ahead to the rest of the season.
After having won four Grand Slam -Singles titles (two each at the US Open and Australian Open), Osaka will improve her record at the French Open, where her best show has reached the third round so far, and also in Wimbledon, who has not seen her past the third round.
The Power hitting Japanese has seen it all since its spectacular turnout. After she was broken with a title run on the US Open 2018, she scaled the peak of the sport and seemed to rule before it started to become peer -shaped. Indifferent shape and injuries have linked her back. That was not everything. She also struggled with psychological problems. At the beginning of 2023 she ran away from the sport because of the pregnancy and would not return until January 2024. After a season with mixed results and more lows than highlights, Osaka pulled the curtains down on the (2024) season early due to a back injury.
This year started on a promising note when she opened the final of the Auckland open before she fell to Clara Tauson. It was the first time she went to a final since 2022. However, she was forced to retire halfway due to an injury.
While a third round performance on the Australian Open followed, the tournament success continued to escape her. Things turned around the WTA 125 Open the Saint-Malo, where she won her first title since the Australian Open 2021.
After the Canadian open, she went to the final before the rapidly rising Victoria Mboko stopped her run. She built on the performance in the last major of the year.
She came up with commander displays in the first two rounds with straight fixed victories before Daria Kasatkina got in her way. After she had fought the first set without dropping a match, she kept a fighting Kasatkina. Then came the controversial collision against Coco Gauff, where Osaka saw the third placed American dismantled in a clinical representation.
“These are the moments for which I play tennis,” she said after crushing Gauff. It was a sign that she was back at her best and could beat and beat the best in the company.
She wore her good shape in the semi -final and was involved in an intense fight against Anisimova before she fell short. Although she did not emulate Kim Clijsters in winning a slam after she became a mother, such as the Belgian in 2009, 2010 and 2011, the beautiful run of Osaka at Flushing Meadows will give her hope to do that quickly.
In recent years, various players have given the trophies of Grand Slam Singles, where there is no duopoly like in the men’s game, where Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner have withdrawn from the rest of the field.
Osaka was able to break into the circle of the winner at the Majors, if she was the challenges of World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, Swiateek, Gauff and Jessica Pegula, the current leading names on the women’s circuit, can ward off.
How Osaka does it in the rest of the 2025 season and her ability to be able to handle seasoned opponents would answer whether she could return to the elite. But given her good show in New York, that can be within the area of possibilities.
The tennis star from the land of the rising sun is ready to rise to the top of the sport again, after he is arranged the number 1 25 weeks earlier and maybe wear more Labubus to Slams.
Published – September 12, 2025 12:12 is ON
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