Win for Osaka

Well done, Ms Osaka! The kid is looking like a future Major winner. Imagine the street parties around Japan should Osaka and Nishikori shock the world and do the double - no-one will turn up for work for a week!

Congrats, young lady!! Keep doing Japan proud!

First time I have heard of her but good on her. I wish her every success.

Akula: "First time I have heard of her but good on her. I wish her every success."

She's been in the news the past couple of days, but in part pointing directly to the fact that she is very suddenly the focus of media attention. In interviews yesterday she met heaps of Japanese media but spoke in English (at least from what I read), and struggles with Japanese. I wish her every success as well (including with the language).

Ganbarre, Naomi-san !

Great job Naomi. You're an inspiration. Best of luck on your next match!

Good luck & use whatever language you want when speaking!!

Watched the highlights - wow - she is powerful.

Hope to see more of her over the season & years.

@BurakuminDes

That would be a sight! However this is the only place I've been to that nothing changes on the streets when anything major goes down. I'm a season ticket holder and last year Gamba Osaka won the TREBLE! The treble people after coming from division 2! That is something!!

And yet on the train home were just announcements, some old people, a drunk salaryman, a few smartphones with legs....hush....

Great Game and great a tan, My Partner tan,s up easy after 3 hours in the summer sun and she turn and beautiful golden brown just like miss Naomi Osaka.

John-San:

Are you trying to be funny? Because it's not working.

No, Just stating a fact, My partner is Japanese. In winter she has is quite fair but a few days in the summer sun like when we go back to Australia her shin tans just like miss Naomi Osaka. Kai Nishikore also has a great tan . this is due to continuing the international circuit and spending most of year in the summer months. I bet both are like my partner.

It probably has something to do with her having a Haitian-American father, if we had to hazard a guess.

Yes you would be totally correct

Understood, Mr Berlusconi.