After the Belarusian four-time Grand Slam champion and the Japanese former world No. 1 concluded their match, home player ...

Welcome to the U.S. Open briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories on each day of the tournament. On Day 7, a star got back to a long-awaited milestone, the tournament’s ...

If anyone still did not believe Naomi Osaka’s game was all the way back, her gritty performance under the U.S. Open spotlight Wednesday night emphatically quieted any remaining doubters of the former ...

Naomi Osaka surprised fans with her epic entrance at The Garden Cup in New York. Madison Square Garden lit up with thrilled ...

Blink, and you missed it: Naomi Osaka needed just 49 minutes to equal the best WTA 1000-level result of her comeback from maternity leave so far. The former world No. 1 surrendered just one game in ...

Six summers ago, Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff shared a unique moment in the third round of the U.S. Open. Gauff, 15 at the time, had just lost her Arthur Ashe Stadium debut to Osaka, the reigning ...

Naomi Osaka competed in the Garden Cup against Aryna Sabalenka in her memorable custom Nike outfit first debuted at the 2024 ...

*On August 28, 2025, tennis star Naomi Osaka condemned Jelena Ostapenko’s post-match remarks toward Taylor Townsend, calling them “one of the worst things you can say to a Black tennis player in a ...