Naomi Osaka defeated Coco Gauff in the fourth round of 2025 US Open and reached its first main quarterfinal since 2021 (AP) New Delhi: Naomi Osaka and her style sparkled at the ongoing US Open in Flushing Meadows. During the evening meeting, she created a pretty fashion statement with Red Roses, a red jacket and a dress with crystals. During the daily session, she wore a clearly purple dress covered with crystals.Then there was a “labubus” that completed the file. Gas toys that have become crystal, which have become quite a range around the world. The names had tennis inspiration: “Arthur Flash” like Arthur Ashe; ‘La Billie Bu’ and ‘Billie Jean Bling’, after Billie Jean King; and “Althea Glitterson”, inspired by Althea Gibson. All pioneers of sport and all who made a mark in the sport.In her short career, Naomi Osaka had an equally impressive and lasting impact. She won four Grand Slam titles – each of them opened. She became the first Japanese to win the main singles. At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the Olympic boiler set fire.
Naomi Osaka came out during her opening round at 2025 US Open in court with a glittering braid and a labub doll.
Osaka, now mother, was led by Black Lives Matter and spoke openly about the depression and solution of mental health problems. Her struggles and defense resulted in the fact that the French open offered players help in the tournament.
Now, at 2025 US Open, Naomi Osaka is back and creates quite a shake on the pitch. On Monday, she took her favorite and world No. 3 Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-2 to register her first quarterfinal place Grand Slam in four and a half years (Australian Open since 2021).She had longed for such days, since her daughter returned to tennis at the beginning of 2024 after her daughter’s birth. Waiting continued in the middle of despair, frustration and personnel changes. Last year, when she lost in the second round at the US Open, she said, “My heart will die every time I lose.” In May, after the loss of the first round at the French Open, she was reduced to tears.The Arthur Ashe stadium was far different. 27 -year -old Osaka smiled as she raised a match point and this bright expression continued with a clenched fist when Gauff’s forehand hit the net. She waved the rocket and yelled the crowd, even though she was defeating the American.
Naomi Osaka showed four different labubus during her four matches at 2025 US Open. (Figure: x)
During an interview in the court she emphasized her way. Two years ago she sat in the stalls, watching the Gauff won his semifinals and finally the title.“I told everyone that I was in the stalls like two months after I gave birth to my daughter (a) watching Coco. I just wanted her to come here and play. That’s my favorite court in the world and for me I came back here,” she said.“Maybe I was a little empty,” Gauff admitted later in what she tried for two weeks. The same cannot be said of Osaka.The Japanese player dropped only one on his way to the quarterfinals. And with the next Karolina Muchova, she has a good reason to be optimistic about her chances, if history is a hint. In the four previous cases, when she reached the quarterfinals of the major, she won it.
Naomi Osaka, on the left of Japan, greets Coco Gauff from the United States, after their match in the fourth round of the US Open Tennis Championships, Monday 1 September 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
The idea of returning to the big scene, playing at the largest stadium in tennis is hardly nervous. Rather, for the first time they enjoyed ASHE in five years.“For me, the main thing I want to take from this tournament is just smiling and having fun,” Osaka said at a press conference. “I know I was too nervous in my first round to smile, and my (third round) match against (Daria) Kasatkina wasn’t really a smiley. When I went to this match, I just wanted to be grateful.”Running in Montreal, coming from two match points down against Liudmil Samson, and with direct success over the world 13 Elina Svitolina gave her the trust she needed. It was equally important to bring former coach Iga Swiatka Tomasz Wiktorowski. When the duo worked in a practical court, the pole report was clear: “Not every ball is the winner.”“I think I know physically in my head that I am able to gather a lot, so I will not overlook,” Osaka said. “I’m a little fine to wait.
Naomi Osaka from Japan returns a shot against Coco Gauff from the United States during the fourth round of the US Open Tennis Championships, on Monday 1 September 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Against Gauff’s Osaka won 16 out of 24 gatherings that went five or more shots. Similarly, deadly at the points of the turns and transforming each of the four chances she created.At the beginning of the year, Osaka said that if things did not improve, it would not be “a type of player to hang around”. On Monday, she reminded these words, she struck and described her need to play tennis as “breathing air”.And for all those 24,000 at the Arthur Ashe stadium and thousands of at home, Osaka’s presence and tennis are the breath of the fresh air that tennis needs.
