The appointment of Tomasz Wikikski (former Iga Swiatek coach) replaces Patrick Mouratoglou that is helping Naomi Osaka spectacularly. At Canadian Open 2025, the 4 -time player who won the Grand Slam champion was showing excellent performance. She defeated strong rivals such as 13 Liudmila Samsonova seeds, 23 Jelena Ostapenko or Anastasija Sevastova.
This morning, Osaka entered the quarterfinals, with the opponent, Elina Svitolina. Entering Set 1, the Japanese player joined the strong. She won 2 consecutive breaks in games 4 and 6 to raise the score to 5-1. Svitolina reclaimed a serve game, but then lost another break in game 8 and lost 2-6.
Set 2, the game did not change much. Osaka won 2 breaks at the end of the set, in turns 6 and 8. After only 68 minutes, the match closed with the 6-2, 6-2 gap in the world's No. 1.
With this result, Osaka has officially won tickets to the semi -finals of Canadian Open 2025. This is the first time the Japanese player won the right to the semi -finals of a WTA 1000 prize after more than three years. The last time she did this was at Miami Open in April 2022.
In the semi -finals, Osaka will confront Clara Tauson – the No. 16 seed of the tournament. The Danish tennis player shocked the No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek in the fourth round and has just defeated the Australian Open Madison Keys 6-1, 6-4 in the quarterfinals. This was the second time she went to the semi -finals of a WTA 1000 prize after the first time in Dubai earlier this year.
The victory over Svitolina also helped Osaka promote strongly on the WTA rankings. Before attending the tournament, she ranked 48th in the world and is expected to rise to 29th.
