Last July, the four-time Grand Slam champion enlisted Tomasz Wiktorowski \u2013 formerly guiding Iga Swiatek \u2013 as her coach. The world No.14 has hailed the Pole for her recent grass court success.<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely I would say my relationship with grass and Wimbledon hasn’t been the best when I was younger,\u201d said Osaka.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m not really sure why I feel so comfortable on grass now this year. I think I’ve done a lot of drills with Tomasz. Most of them weren’t necessarily even on grass court. It was more like pattern recognition and things like that, getting me comfortable with my own game.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, I think like throughout the entire year, he’s been getting me more comfortable with my movement and what my plans are playing opponents.\u201d<\/p>\n
Osaka\u2019s buzz word following victory over the world No.1 was \u201cfun,\u201d the 28-year-old is competing with a smile on her face.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time since I\u2019ve had so much fun on the court. To do it here really means a lot,\u201d added Osaka.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Rome (in May). I lost to Iga (Swiatek) really badly. I felt like I just shut everyone out. I literally just got on a plane back home. It wasn’t the most professional thing to do. I didn’t talk to my team. I felt really ashamed about what I did. So then after that I just told myself, like, \u2018Hey, I’m nearing 30, I really got to enjoy the time that I have.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, obviously tennis is very, very important to me, but I have a life outside of that. I have to treasure tennis in the way that I can, which is not putting too much importance on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last July, the four-time Grand Slam champion enlisted Tomasz Wiktorowski \u2013 formerly guiding Iga Swiatek \u2013 as her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-527800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}