{"id":323106,"date":"2025-08-06T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323106\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:53:12","slug":"naomi-osaka-discloses-what-shes-really-been-working-on-in-training-recently-after-reaching-the-canadian-open-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/323106\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka discloses what she’s really been working on in training recently after reaching the Canadian Open semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Naomi Osaka is thrilled to be back playing at a high level after she reached the Canadian Open semifinals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Japanese player has reached the last four at a WTA 1000 tournament for the first time since the 2022 Miami Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She reached the semifinals in Toronto for the loss of just one set, which came in the second round where Osaka saved two match points to beat Liudmila Samsonova<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has been flying ever since and now she has a chance to earn a spot in the Canadian Open<\/a> final for the first time.<\/p>\n

\"NaomiPhoto by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty ImagesNaomi Osaka is happier with herself which is helping her win more matches<\/p>\n

Naomi Osaka<\/a> made a bright start to the 2025 season as she reached the ASB Classic<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

But an unfortunate injury meant Osaka retired from the Auckland final<\/a> after winning the first set, and injury also meant Osaka retired from the Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since regaining full fitness, she has lost multiple three-set matches, including her last six at WTA Tour<\/a> level before beating Samsonova in Montreal.<\/p>\n

Now Osaka is showing some of the form that helped her win four Grand Slam titles, and she thinks the positive feelings she has rediscovered is a significant factor in her improved form.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, she disclosed what she has worked on training that helped Osaka defeat Elina Svitolina<\/a> to advance to the Canadian Open semi-finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, definitely, which it kind of sucks that, like, I\u2019m happier when I win, but that\u2019s kind of the reality of an athlete,\u201d Osaka said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I also wonder if I\u2019m winning because I\u2019m happier. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s tough to think about, but yeah, I feel a lot more at peace with myself and what I want to do in this part of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cMy fitness, which I think helped me a lot against Elina today, because I know she\u2019s one of the best movers and also, like, she gets the ball back a lot. I felt like she would have to push me off the court if she wanted to win. Yeah, that went fairly well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NaomiPhoto by Hannah Peters\/Getty ImagesNaomi Osaka says she last felt good about her game at the Australian Open<\/p>\n

Other than the title Osaka won at 125k level in Saint-Malo<\/a> in May, there were seven months between the two semifinals she reached at WTA Tour level.<\/p>\n

These two periods of the year mark the best tennis the former world number one has played so far this season.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it comes as no surprise that before the Canadian Open, Osaka says she last felt good about her tennis when she competed at Melbourne Park in January.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike truly at peace or confident with myself, maybe Australian Open. I don\u2019t know,\u201d the four-time Grand Slam winner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are tournaments that I go in there knowing, like, I practiced something, and I\u2019m fully confident in that, and I feel that way a little now. I guess we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka is thrilled to be back playing at a high level after she reached the Canadian Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[66689,37655,79,1068,16,15,5069],"class_list":{"0":"post-323106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-canadian-open","9":"tag-naomi-osaka","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114983102376053955","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}