In the highly anticipated battle of past US Open champions, it was Naomi Osaka who showed the form that brought her to the top of the sport.<\/p>\n
Osaka rolled to a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Coco Gauff on Monday in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows. <\/p>\n
Naomi Osaka celebrates her win over Coco Gauff at US Open on Sept. 1, 2025. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
Osaka took control of the match from the jump, breaking Gauff in the opening game and not relinquishing the lead.<\/p>\n
Osaka would then break again to finish off the set, while she did not face a break point on her serve the entire match.<\/p>\n
Naomi Osaka is into the quarterfinals of the US Open. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201cI was super locked-in,\u201d she said in her on-court interview post-match. \u201cI felt like everyone wanted to watch a really great match and I hope that\u2019s what you got.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff\u2019s serve was improved from her early-tournament struggles, but had 33 unforced errors compared to eight winners.<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff during her match against Naomi Osaka on Sept. 1, 2025. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Naomi Osaka during her fourth-round US Open match against Coco Gauff on Sept. 1, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Osaka will now face the winner of Karolina Muchova-Marta Kostyuk in the quarterfinals. <\/p>\n
It is Osaka\u2019s first trip to the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam since winning the Australian Open in 2021.<\/p>\n
Coco Gauff during the fourth-round US Open match. Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I\u2019m a little sensitive and I don\u2019t want to cry,\u201d she told the crowd. \u201cHonestly, I have so much fun out here. I was telling everyone, literally, I was out here in the stands two months after giving birth to my daughter and I was watching Coco. I just really wanted and opportunity to come out here and play. This is my favorite court in the world and it means so much to be back here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Osaka missed time for mental health breaks and the birth of her daughter, Shai, in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the highly anticipated battle of past US Open champions, it was Naomi Osaka who showed the form…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[5113,18323,99,428,14687],"class_list":{"0":"post-125712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-coco-gauff","9":"tag-naomi-osaka","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-us-open-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125712","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=125712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}