Naomi Osaka

Quick Facts

Full Name	Naomi Osaka
Occupation	Tennis Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 16, 1997(1997-10-16)
Age	27
Birthplace	Chūō-ku, Niigata
Country	Japan
Birth City	Niigata Prefecture
Horoscope	Libra

Naomi Osaka Biography

Naomi Osaka is one of the most popular and richest Tennis Player who was born on October 16, 1997 in Chūō-ku, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. After defeating Tennis player who captured her first grand slam victory after defeating Serena Williams in the 2018 US Open Championship. She also went on to win the 2019 Australian Open and the 2020 US Open. at the 2018 US Open Championship, a tennis player won her first grand slam. She won the 2019 Australian Open as well as the 2020 US Open.

In the semi-finals, she defeated She defeated Madison Keys in the semi-finals of the 2018 US Open..

Naomi Osaka (大坂 なおみ Japanese pronunciation: [o̞ːsäkä näo̞mʲi] , Ōsaka Naomi, born October 16, 1997) is a Japanese professional tennis player. Osaka has been ranked No. 1 by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and is the first player of Haitian or Asian descent to hold the top ranking in singles. She has won five titles on the WTA Tour, including two titles at both the Grand Slam and Premier Mandatory levels. Osaka won her first two Grand Slam singles titles in back-to-back Grand Slam tournaments at the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open, and is the first player to achieve this feat since Jennifer Capriati in 2001. In 2020, Osaka became the highest-paid female athlete ever having earned $37 million from June 2019 to May 2020.

When Osaka was three years old, her family moved from Japan to Valley Stream, New York on Long Island to live with her father’s parents. Osaka’s father was inspired to teach his daughters how to play tennis, by watching the Williams sisters compete at the 1999 French Open. Having little experience as a tennis player himself, he sought to emulate how Richard Williams trained his daughters to become two of the best players in the world, despite having never played the sport. François remarked that, “The blueprint was already there. I just had to follow it”, with regard to the detailed plan Richard had developed for his daughters. He began coaching Naomi and Mari once they settled in the United States. In 2006, Osaka’s family moved to Florida when Naomi was eight or nine years old so that they would have better opportunities to train. Naomi practiced on the Pembroke Pines public courts. When she was 15 years old, she began working with Patrick Tauma at the ISP Academy. In 2014, she moved to the Harold Solomon Tennis Academy. She later trained at the ProWorld Tennis Academy.

Leonard Francois is her father and Mari Osaka is his sister. She began dating Her father is Leonard Francois and his sister is Mari Osaka. She and rapper YBN Cordae started dating in 2019. in 2019.

Naomi Osaka Net Worth

Naomi Osaka is one of the richest Tennis Player from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Naomi Osaka 's net worth $25 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She registered with the Japan Tennis Association, and became a pro tennis player in September 2013.

She won the Rising Stars Invitational tournament at the 2015 WTA Finals.

Naomi was born on October 16, 1997, in Chūō-ku, Osaka in Japan to Tamaki Osaka and Leonard François. Her mother is from Hokkaido, Japan, and her father is from Jacmel, Haiti. She has an older sister named Mari who is also a professional tennis player. The two girls were given their mother’s maiden name due to the Japanese Family Registration Law (Koseki) (a foreign spouse must join the Japanese partner’s koseki and children are registered under that Japanese spouse’s surname). Osaka’s parents met when her father was visiting Hokkaido while he was a college student in New York.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Naomi Osaka height 5 ft 11 in Naomi weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

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Osaka returned to tennis in the middle of July. At the US Open in August, she reached the third round at a Grand Slam event for the third time this year. She upset No. 30 CoCo Vandeweghe in the first round before losing to No. 9 Madison Keys in three sets. During her match against Keys, she had a 5–1 lead in the third set before ultimately losing in a tiebreak. After the tournament, Osaka began the Asian hard court season with two tournaments in Tokyo, first losing in the second round at the Japan Women’s Open. Having already reached her first two career WTA quarterfinals earlier in the year, she then made her breakthrough as a wild card at the Premier level Pan Pacific Open. She upset No. 12 Dominika Cibulková and No. 20 Svitolina on the road to making her first WTA final at the age of 18. At the time, Cibulkova was the highest ranked player she ever defeated. Additionally, she was the first Japanese player to contest the final at the event since Kimiko Date in 1995. Osaka ultimately finished runner-up to Caroline Wozniacki. Nonetheless, she entered the top 50 of the WTA rankings for the first time. At the end of the season, she was named the WTA Newcomer of the Year.

Facts & Trivia

Naomi Ranked on the list of most popular Tennis Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Naomi Osaka celebrates birthday on October 16 of every year.

Born in Japan to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother, Osaka has lived and trained in the United States since she was three years old. She came to prominence at the age of sixteen when she defeated former US Open champion Samantha Stosur in her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Stanford Classic. Two years later, she reached her first WTA final at the 2016 Pan Pacific Open in Japan to enter the top 50 of the WTA rankings. Osaka made her breakthrough into the upper echelon of women’s tennis in 2018, when she won her first WTA title at the Indian Wells Open. Later in the year, she defeated 23-time Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams in the final of the US Open to become the first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam singles title.

What is Naomi Osaka's current world ranking?

Osaka, a four-time grand slam title winner and former world No 1, is ranked 38th and rising back up the rankings after playing fewer tournaments in 2021.

Is Naomi Osaka in a relationship?

Naomi Osaka is currently dating American rapper Cordae Amari Dunston , who is mononymously known as Cordae. The 24-year-old from North Carolina first gained popularity for his remixes of popular rap tracks by Eminem and J.

What languages does Naomi Osaka speak?

English

Why does Naomi Osaka go by her mother's last name?

In a 2018 interview with The New York Times, Naomi’s mother, Tamaki, explained that Naomi and her sister, Mari, took their mother’s last name, Osaka, instead of their father’s, Francois, so that it would be easier if the sisters stayed in Japan and enrolled in school or rented apartments.

Who won the most tennis Grand Slams?

CharacteristicNumber of Grand Slam victories
Rafael Nadal (ESP)| 21
Roger Federer (SUI)| 20
Novak Djokovic (SRB)| 20
Pete Sampras (USA)| 14