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Naomi Osaka vs Jennifer Brady Full Match | Australian Open 2021 Final
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Naomi Osaka vs Jennifer Brady Full Match | Australian Open 2021 Final



Naomi Osaka takes on Jennifer Brady in the Australian Open 2021 women’s singles final, a fitting conclusion to an event bringing together the two players demonstrating the highest level of tennis and mental toughness.

Osaka was forced to save two match points in the fourth round against Garbine Muguruza. Brady was forced to complete two weeks of hard hotel quarantine before commencing her Australian summer campaign.

Yet here they are, having dropped just three sets between them all fortnight.

While Osaka, a three-time major champion and superstar of the sport, faces a Grand Slam final debutant, this is hardly a one-sided match-up.

It follows their glorious US Open semifinal from 2020, a match widely acclaimed as the best women’s contest of the year and one which Osaka’s declared as “probably in the top two matches I’ve played in my life”.

An occasion full of huge serving, power-hitting and a steady stream of winners, Osaka needed three sets to subdue the threat of the then-untested American.

While it is not unusual to see Osaka in another major final, this is unfamiliar territory for the 24th-ranked Brady, who has won nine of her past 10 matches.

Those with a passing interest in tennis may never have heard of the 25-year-old prior to AO2021. The American has never been ranked inside the top 20, and until her US Open semifinal last year had never been beyond the fourth round at a Slam.

But after changing up her team and training base – she works with coach Michael Geserer in Germany – Brady enjoyed an incredible upward swing in 2020.

She beat Maria Sharapova and top-ranked Ash Barty at the Brisbane International to start the year, won 12 of her first 17 matches before COVID-19 suspended the sport, then claimed her first WTA title in Lexington when tennis resumed in August. Then came her semifinal run in New York.

History shows that if Osaka gets beyond the fourth round of a major tournament, she wins the trophy. But Brady has proven she belongs amongst the women’s elite. So who will come out on top in the Australian Open 2021 final?

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22 Comments

  3. JEAN JOSEPH

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  4. Roo Bookaroo

    Besides everything else, it remains obvious that Naomi Osaka is here grossly overweight. You can distinctly notice her bulging stomach roll at 6:40 under the black-lace top, visibly compressed below at the waist by the pink skirt. It is highly conceivable that the black leggings are similarly worn to disguise the thunder thighs. Same view at 52:53, indeed. At game intermission, back on her bench, as at 11:36, for example, and all during the match, Osaka lifts her towel not just to cover hips and thighs as usual, but all the way to her bust , essentially in an attempt to hide her expanding midriff.
    Just revisit the final of the 2018 US Open of Naomi Osaka battling Serena Williams in Sept. 2018, and notice there, in those younger days, the much better defined figure of Osaka, her less swollen face and slimmer thighs. Most likely, under the stress that her fragile mental make-up cannot control or resist, Osaka has been indulging into some kind of heavy (binge?) eating as a means to find consolation and dampen down her anxieties.
    And it is not just her shape that is so visibly modified, but her mobility too seems to have been affected. Especially laterally. Again, if you watch the video of Sept. 2018, you cannot fail to observe that Naomi Osaka was then much more agile and more eager to go on chasing after nearly all wide balls. Whereas here, standing in the center, like an unconcerned observer, she often stays rooted in place and watches the wide ball go by without any visible attempt to spring laterally in the hope to catch it. So, no doubt about it, Osaka's much heavier weight has had a negative impact on her mobility, speed, and overall athleticism.
    This is not unlike what happened in the case of Monica Seles when she couldn't deal with the psychological sequels to the trauma endured when she got stabbed on a Hamburg court in April 1993. She took a long break, in spite of a light wound that healed properly within four months of rehab. And, when she finally returned to the game 28 months later, she exhibited the same kind of protruding stomach roll, heavy shoulders and thighs as we see here in Naomi Osaka, and with her teenage hopping, dancing and jumping visibly diminished — testimony to a level of energy and athleticism equally damaged.

  7. Alexander Caballero

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  9. verlaine T.

    I didn't know Naomi, until she beat Serena Williams and Williams was mad like hell,why ????? she made some stupid comment toward referees and got fine and slam rocket on the ground. So, since than Naomi Osaka is my favorite female player,I never like Williams sisters anyway………………………………..

  12. Justina Ma

    Naomi Osaka is such a great player! She plays tennis really well. I play tennis too and she is like my idol . I want to be just like her when I grow up.

  18. musicallday

    Seems like so long ago…a little sad how far Osaka has fallen since this final…

  20. Geraldo Perdigão

    The US Tennis Association made a huge mistake not signing Osaka in. Shew went to Japan and won the world after that.

  21. Sticky Rice

    If Osaka wants to win more slams again, she needs more variety in her game. Once other players are able to handle her power shots, Osaka struggles. She's got the power, just not the change up game to throw the other players off anymore.