By Richard Pagliaro | Monday, September 1, 2025
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New York – relying on her fingers after starting, Naomi Osaka Eager energy exuded from the beginning.
A masterful Osaka turned the block match into inconsistency.
Breaking in the first game, Osaka was a tough aircraft forward by pressing an unstable Coco gafff 6-3, 6-2 to light in her first quarter-finals in the US Open since her 2020 championship candidacy.
Good news for Osaka: This is her first Grand Slam quarterfinal since she became Mom.
Best news: In each four times before Osaka has reached a quarter -finals of Grand Slam, she has continued to capture the championship.
Over the past decade, the Flushing Meadows 2018 and 2020 Osaka champion remains the only woman who won two open US titles in that space. Now, she is two wins away from playing for a third US Open wreath.
“I’m a little sensitive. I don’t want to cry,” Osaka Mary Joe Fernandez told Espn afterwards. “Honestly, I just got a lot of fun here. I was in the stands like two months after I was born my daughter watching Coco (win 2023 US Open).
“I really loved an opportunity to go out and play. This is my favorite court in the world and that means a lot to me to come back here. I want to say a really great thanks to my team. It has not always been easy, but they have been by my part.”
Six years ago, Osaka educated a 15-year-old Gauff 6-3, 6-0 in the third round of US Open 2019.
In today’s match of SH.BA’s open champions, a sharp Osaka shattered a clumsy gaff.
Osaka, with 2 23, served only 42 percent, but only six points fell in the service and did not face a resting point. Osaka won 15 of the 16 points of the first service and punished the premature wing of Guff in a 64 -minute blow.
“Definitely is definitely really special,” Osaka said. “Honestly, I look at it very much. I think the way it develops itself is really special.
“Being such an amazing model of such a young age is a gift and a talent she has and I have all the respect in the world for her.”
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Under the text for this story is both Grand Slam Champions made major training changes last month. Osaka split with Patrick Mouratoglou and hired former Swiate coach Tomasz Wiktorowski, who reached Montreal and instructed the Japanese superstar in the open Canadian final.
Across the net, Gauff was trying to implement the shock technique changing the new coach Gavin Macmillan, whom she hired four days before the Uopen started, has done to her service and Western-Grip Forehand.
Today, Osaka was calm and clear, while Gauff looked narrow and confused. Although Gauff served 66 percent and made five double mistakes, the rest of her game was dismantled in the face of Osaka’s fire power.
From time to time, gafff shots in a flat row in the net and by the end of this fourth round even shocked, perhaps the best in the game, was expiring in the net.
Roland Garros Champion Gauff’s reign won Toss, elected to serve and immediately paid the price for that decision.
A clumsy gaff could not find her first range, flattening that stroke to give Osaka the opening break.
Commanding Crosscourt’s premature exchanges, Osaka hit the cleaner and with more convictions, repeatedly draining first mistakes by Americans.
Baloning her third double blame beyond the service line, Gauff fell into the service of the service to end a clumsy first set from its end to 31 minutes.
Controlling the Center of the Court, Osaka opened and closed the set on vacation. In the middle, it exceeded Gauff by torturing the weakest wing of the 2023 champion.
Osaka won 20 of the 24 points of service in the opening, including sealing two love holders.
During her run in Montreal’s final last month, Osaka said her biggest improvement of the game was her movement coming out of the court’s corners.
The big champion four times showed that today when Gauff tried to extend it to his leg rallies. Hitting nicely on the run, Osaka brought a rare answer by capturing her third love for 2-1 with a “Come on!”
Six group matches, the wheels came out completely from Guff’s game. A premature error and double error placed gafff at a double point.
Then a sculpted gaff scored two of her hand by donating Osaka rest and a 4-2 lead.
Of the 2, Osaka was torn to 12 out of 15 points extending to 5-2.
Fans of Arthur Ase Stadium tried to attract Gauff, who built a 40-15 lead in the eighth game.
An empty gaffe hit three shots in the net, ending a biased match in 64 minutes.
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Osaka was ranked 88th at this time last year and if she continues to capture a third US Open wreath on Saturday, she will look back in a moment in Montreal that transformed her season.
2023 Montreal finalist, Liudmila Samsonova held dual match points at 6-4, 5-4, 40-15 when Osaka was excavated and denied two game points, stirring her 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 Comeback Conquest Samsonova in Samsonova in two Montreal round, last month
Saving those points of the match, Osaka began to unite the manufacturing points rather than being directed to try to finish the premature points with a big strike.
The strength to cope with the fight or flight in that match, Osaka chose both options. She fought again and since then has grown.
“I had played a match in Monreal, where I had to save two game points from then I started thinking of anything,” Osaka said today. “You just have to try your best and have a smile on your face.”
27-year-old Osaka will try to keep this journey of joy by revolving while she will face Carolina in the civilian for a semifinal place.
In Grandstand, Muchova scored her fourth consecutive three-set victory by defeating Marta Kostyuk of the 27th, 6-3, 6-7 (0), 6-3 for her third direct US Open quarterfinal.
The two -time semi -finalist of the US Open Open has gone to the distance beating Venus Williams, Sorana Cirstea, Linda Noskova and Kostyuk in two hours, 53 minutes today. All four of Muchova’s victories have passed at least two hours, while Osaka’s longest match was a three -set win over Daria Kasatkina that lasted one hour, 44 minutes.
