With their victory over the Czech Petra Kvitova, the 21-Year-old made for a novelty. You won the second Grand Slam title of her career and is now ranked one of the Tennis world rank list.
It was to much for Naomi Osaka in Melbourne: the first Australian Open title, the number one of the Tennis world rank list, and, of course, a lot of money. The equivalent of almost 2.6 million euros, can take the living in the USA, the daughter of a Haitian man and a Japanese woman now, after her victory over Petra Kvitova home.
The highly-charged match was the first Match of the two against each other. Both were also, for the first Time in the final of the Australian Open. And Naomi Osaka, the first Japanese girl, which brings the title. After you could not use in the second sentence, first of three match points, she won the dramatic third set and won with 7:6, 5:7 and 6:4.
Of course, four at number one in the world rankings
Kvitova had mastered over long stretches of the Matches against the defeat and had good chances to get their third Grand Slam title after the Successes at Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014. But Osaka caught himself and turned after 2:27 hours on her fifth match ball.
Petra Kvitova missed in Melbourne the Chance to get their third Grand Slam title
The way to the final in Melbourne was the Year’s no easier for the 21. Overall, you had to go three times over three sets. Osaka had to fight especially in the third round against Hsieh Su-Wei, as you threatened, after lost the first set in a 2:5 deficit in the second passage.
Her first Grand Slam title, had taken the Japanese woman in the last US Open than Serena Williams defeated in a tumultuous final in New York. Since then, she belonged for the first time to the Top Ten in the world rankings. With her victory at the Australian Open, the jump from place to place, she managed well.
Exciting finals of the Australian Open on national day Australian Day
2016 Osaka was a success at the Australian Open for the first Time, qualifying for a Grand Slam tournament at all. There, she was drawn right away in the third round. At the US Open in 2017, Osaka had thrown in the first round, defending champion Angelique Kerber out of the tournament.
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