Australia pays tribute to
Naomi Osaka
, a two-time tournament champion with four Grand Slam titles.
The Japanese beat
Jennifer Brady
6-4 and 6-3, in one hour and 18 minutes of a final that had no other story than that of the first set.
From there, finding that Brady was overweight with his first
major
final
, Osaka, who will be number two in the world on Monday, walked comfortably towards the cup.
She is the most convincing player on the circuit.
Palpable proof is that it has already positioned itself as the third active tennis player with the greatest, pampering than veteran
Kim Clijsters
.
He is three from
Venus Williams
and, yes, an eternity from 23 from his sister
Serena
, whom she stopped again in the semifinals as she had in the 2018 US Open final. If she fails to reach
Margaret Court's
24
, Serena will always have in her memory the painful scourge of Osaka.
Jennifer Brady was no longer a quasi-anonymous player, as when she reached the semifinals of the last US Open, where she fell precisely against Osaka.
Twenty-fourth seeded, the American has ratified in Melbourne her remarkable letter of introduction in New York.
There is room for new racquets in a still troubled elite, as
Iga Swiatek
demonstrated
last fall at Roland Garros.
In that power vacuum, with nine different champions in the last 14 Grand Slam tournaments until the last edition of the Parisian tournament, Osaka represents stability.
At 23 years old, he has played four great finals and has won them all.
Among the few certainties
The Japanese appeared in the final with a streak of 20 consecutive victories, without losing a match in almost a year.
In fact, the last tennis player capable of beating her was the Spanish
Sara Sorribes
, in the Federation Cup, in February 2020. Winner of the US Open in 2018 and 2020 and in this Australian Open also in 2019, Osaka is among the few certainties in the women's tennis, tending to gobble up fleeting champions.
The third seeded already warned of a single game with a
break
in the fourth game.
It was she who dominated and intimidated Brady, 24th, with her sharp rest.
But the American, who had delivered her serve by conceding two double faults, recovered it immediately to equalize three.
There were, however, too many nerves in Brady's tennis, who did not convert a ball to reach 5-4 and serve, to see the set fly in the next game victim of errors as gross as the forehand with which he concluded this first partial.
Osaka, who escaped two
match points
against
Garbiñe Muguruza
in the round of 16, didn't need his best to get ahead;
he just had to wait for Brady's hesitations.
He left early in the second set, the score of which was only able to clean up the industrious Brady.
In need of solid references, women's tennis has a long-standing star in Naomi Osaka.
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