She was also the highest-earning female athlete of all time by annual income that year. Osaka is one of the world's most marketable athletes, having been ranked eighth among all athletes in endorsement income in 2020. From 2018 to 2021, Osaka won a Grand Slam singles title in four consecutive years, with her streak ending in 2022. She closed down the rest of her tennis season to focus on family and health. In mid-2021, suffering from depression and other issues, Osaka retired from the French Open, dropped out of Wimbledon, and lost early at the US Open. Later in the year, she defeated 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams in the final of the US Open to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title. Osaka made her breakthrough into the upper echelon of women's tennis in 2018 when she won her first WTA title at the Indian Wells Open. Two years later, she reached her first WTA final at the 2016 Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo to enter the top 50 of the WTA rankings. She came to prominence at age 16 when she defeated former US Open champion Samantha Stosur in her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Stanford Classic. She was the first woman to win successive Grand Slam singles titles since Serena Williams in 2015, and was the first to win her first two in successive majors since Jennifer Capriati in 2001.īorn in Japan to a Haitian-American father and a Japanese mother, Osaka has lived and trained in the United States since age three. At the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open, Osaka won her first two Grand Slam singles titles in back-to-back Grand Slam tournaments. Her seven titles on the WTA Tour also include two at the Premier Mandatory level.
She is a four-time Grand Slam singles champion. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and is the first Asian player to hold the top ranking in singles.
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Naomi Osaka ( 大坂 なおみ, Ōsaka Naomi, Japanese pronunciation:, born October 16, 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player.
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