The hoped-for duel between the world #2 and the former #1 could not take place, except only during the first four plays of the first set
A defeat which did not make Naomi lose her newfound smile who declared after the match "This trophy is for all the people who support me, for all my supporters [...] I know that I have not reached this level for a while and I know that today's result is not what you expected. But I have fun on the court."
Note in passing that Naomi received nearly 650,000 US dollars for her participation in the final and her opponent Iga Świątek a little over 1.2 million US dollars for her victory
Learn more about Naomi Osaka : Born in Japan on October 16, 1997 in Chūō-ku (Osaka), to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother, her family emigrated to the United States when she was 3 years old. His father from Jacmel introduced him to tennis and registered him with the Japanese Tennis Association. She became a professional player in September 2013. She gave up her American nationality to keep that of Japan https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-29001-icihaiti-tennis-naomi-osaka-abandons-her-american-nationality.html< /I>
