The double champion Naomi Osaka created a dazzling performance on Monday and expelled World Champion No. 3 and 2023 Coco Gauff from the US Open 2025. The Japanese star needed only an hour and four minutes to send the third seed 6-3, 6-2 at Arthur Ash.
The victory meant Osaka’s return to the Grand Slam quarterfinals after four and a half years – a gap of 1,658 days. With her 27 -year -old Osaka, she also won her place in the TOP 20 ranking WTA. This meant Gauff’s third quarterfinal performance at the US Open and a fifth of her career at the Grand Slam Actions overall.
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Osaka seized control of the match from the beginning and showed the flashes of her vintage brilliance, while Gauff, champion 2023, fought with her column and Forehad. Both fans’ favorites met in New York for the first time since their unforgettable meeting in 2019, when Osaka won a better 15 -year -old Gauff.
After the match, Osaka remembered how he watched, how Coco Gauff won the US Open in 2023 from the stalls, just two months after the birth of her daughter. She described the flushing meadows as her favorite court in the world.
“I’m a little sensitive and I don’t want to cry, but I had so much fun here. Just two months after my daughter’s birth I was watching Coco in the stalls. I really wanted to get back and play in this court – that’s my favorite in the world.
He will also face the winners of the conflict between Karolina Muchova from the Czech Republic and Ukraine Marta Kostyuk.
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Published:
Sabyasachi Chowdhury
Published on:
September 2, 2025
