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AUSTRALIAN OPEN Wo men’s final Osaka eyes more after victory

By Karen Crouse “She played really well when NEW YORK TIMES she had to,” Brady conceded. “She hit good shots when she MELBOURNE, Australia — The needed them.” most uncomfortable moment for Brady, a 25-year-old American, on Saturday night lost to Osaka in a hard-fought was not when she faced a key semifinal at the U.S. Open. A break point in the first set of her member of UCLA’s 2014 national women’s singles championship team, Brady be- final against Jennifer Brady. Nor came the first woman with colle- was it when she was serving for giate experience in this tourna- the match in the second. ment’s final since 1983. She was It came two hours after she trying to become the first to win closed out her 6-4, 6-3 victory at the title since Barbara Jordan of Rod Laver Arena. At the start of Stanford did so in 1979. her news conference, Craig Tiley, Brady, who was outside the top the head of Tennis Australia, 50 at the start of 2020, entered handed Osaka a flute of Cham- the tournament ranked 24th in pagne and proposed a toast to her the world, and after her run at second Australian Open crown Melbourne Park, she will vault to and fourth Grand Slam title. No. 13. Osaka, 23, brought the glass to The third-ranked Osaka will her lips and tentatively took a sip, move to No. 2, behind Australian trying unsuccessfully to keep her , who fell in the expression neutral. She has never quarterfinals. Osaka, who spent developed a taste for alcohol, she long stretches of 2019 at No.1, said had explained earlier in the tour- she is not fixated on regaining the nament, because she was told as a top spot. child that it was bad for her. “I feel like I’m at a really good “Like it’s ruining your body or place right now,” Osaka said. “I your liver,” she said. “I just want just want to play every match as to give myself an advantage for as David Gray /AFP via Getty Images hard as I can. If it comes to the long as I can.” Naomi Osaka celebrates with the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup after claiming her fourth Grand point were I’m able to be No. 1 Osaka, the pride of Japan who Slam title in a win over Jennifer Brady in the women’s singles final at the Australian Open. again, I’ll embrace it, but I’m not spent much of her childhood in really chasing it.” Florida, would appear to have a keeping going down your own that she is in to go into the first had opened a sliver of daylight at Osaka’s championships have leg up on the rest of her competi- path.” Slam,” Osaka said, referring to 30-40. all come on hard courts, starting tion in an increasingly deep wom- Osaka, who won her second Brady. “Of course, I know the On break point, Osaka missed with her victory at the 2018 U.S. en’s game. She is 4 for 4 in Grand U.S. Open title this past Septem- nerves that come with that. But her first serve, directed a second Open, where she beat Serena Wil- Slam finals, a feat achieved in the ber, is halfway to a Naomi Slam. then I was thinking on the other attempt at Brady’s body and then liams in straight sets in the final. Open era only by Monica Seles on She is unbeaten in her past 21 side, for me,I wonder if I’m ex- took the point with a forehand Osaka said one of her goals this her way to nine total champion- matches. Her most recent loss in pected to do better because I have winner, one of four she’d record season is to expand her success to ships and Roger Federer on his an individual competition came been in Slam finals before. So in the match. She won the next other surfaces, starting with clay way to 20. in the third round of this tourna- there was actually a lot of nerves two points to seal the opening since the is the next “That’s very amazing compa- ment last year when she was up- with that.” shut. scheduled Grand Slam. ny,” said Osaka, who held her set by the American teenager Co- Both players looked nervous in Nobody in the game right now “I don’t expect to win all my childhood idol, the 23-time Grand co Gauff, a defeat that weighed on the early going, missing first is a better pacesetter than Osaka, matches this year,” Osaka said, Slam champion , Osaka’s mind before she took the serves and racking up roughly who improved to 45-1 in Grand adding, “I don’t think it’s possi- to the same number of games, court against Brady, who was a two unforced errors for every Slam matches when she wins the ble. Tennis players, we go seven, mustered by Brady, a 25- decided underdog, as Gauff had winner. With Osaka serving at 4-4 first set. She raced to a 4-0 lead in through ups and downs. But for year-old in her first major final. been. in the first set, Brady chipped the second, needing 36 minutes me, I only hope that my ups and She added: “You can only just “I have been in the position away at Osaka’s fortress until she to close out the match. downs are less drastic this year.”

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