{"id":117360,"date":"2025-08-29T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117360\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:43:09","slug":"naomi-osaka-explains-why-she-was-really-stressed-throughout-her-latest-match-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117360\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka explains why she was \u2018really\u00a0stressed\u2019\u00a0throughout her latest match at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Naomi Osaka is into the third round of the US Open for the first time since 2021 after defeating Hailey Baptiste in straight sets at Louis Armstrong Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>The four-time Grand Slam champion won 6-3, 6-1 against the American to pick up an eighth win in her last nine tour-level matches and advance in New York. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/naomi-osaka-told-why-her-behaviour-after-the-canadian-open-final-could-be-really-bad-for-her-tennis-career\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Osaka made the final of the Canadian Open<\/a> and looks to be back to her very best during the hard-court swing, having earned two comfortable victories at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/us-open\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Open<\/a> so far. <\/p>\n<p>After the match, the Japanese star gave her reaction to beating Baptiste, but revealed she was \u2018stressed\u2019 coming into the clash. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2231807088-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Osaka celebrating at the US Open.\" \/>Photo by TIMOTHY A.CLARY\/AFP via Getty ImagesNaomi Osaka reacts to beating Hailey Baptiste at the US Open<\/p>\n<p>In her on-court interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/naomi-osaka\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Osaka<\/a> said of her win over the 23-year-old US star: \u201cI was really stressed the entire time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played her last in Miami, and it was probably one of the most difficult matches of the year. So I was just really trying to focus and not give her any free points and just be positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also had high praise for her new coach, Tomasz Wiktorowski, who she appointed in July. <\/p>\n<p>Osaka explained: \u201cI mean, he just, he definitely makes me see tennis in a different way, and I think you can kind of see that with how I\u2019m playing recently.<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Osaka\u2019s results since parting ways with Patrick Mouratoglou<\/p>\n<p>After the Washington Open earlier this summer, Osaka parted ways with former coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Patrick-Mouratoglou\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Mouratoglou<\/a> and appointed Wiktorowski, who had previously worked closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/iga-swiatek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iga Swiatek<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Since then, she has enjoyed a hot run of form and is producing some of her best tennis in years. <\/p>\n<p>At the Canadian Open in Montreal, she dropped just one set en route to the final, defeating the likes of Clara Tauson and Elina Svitolina en route. <\/p>\n<p>Though she ultimately fell to Victoria Mboko in the final, Osaka has bounced back at Flushing Meadows and will hope to make a deep run at the major she has emerged victorious at twice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka is into the third round of the US Open for the first time since 2021 after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[23994,18323,99,428,11883],"class_list":{"0":"post-117360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-hailey-baptiste","9":"tag-naomi-osaka","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-us-open"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}