Naomi Osaka enters US Open 2021 as the third seed and defending champion. Here's a look at the opponents that could stand between her and a fifth Grand Slam title.

Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has clinched a first-round victory at the 2021 U.S. Open. Osaka won two straight sets 6-4, 6-1 over 87th-ranked Marie Bouzková of the Czech Republic.

US OPEN 2021: Djokovic, Osaka demand much of the attention Novak Djokovic is well aware that his two-track pursuit of men’s tennis history at the U.S. Open means all eyes will be on him when he ...

No. 3 seed Osaka, who is hoping to win her fifth Grand Slam title overall, won last year's US Open as well as the 2018 New York tournament while Bouzkova, 23, is the 2014 US Open junior girls ...

In a stunning result, US Open defending champion Naomi Osaka lost her third-round match to Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in three sets, as the world No. 3 and four-time major champion ...

Naomi Osaka lost her cool, ... Naomi Osaka planning to take break ‘for a while’ after US Open shocker By . Brian Lewis. Published Sep. 4, 2021. Updated Sep. 4, 2021, 6:14 a.m. ET.

The 2021 US Open marked Osaka’s first major since she pulled out of the French Open this spring and skipped Wimbledon in July to focus on her mental health. Filed under.

Naomi Osaka serves in her match against Patricia Maria Tig of Romania during Day One of the 2021 French Open at Roland Garros, May 30, 2021, in Paris.

For Osaka, the No. 3 seed who won her second title at Flushing Meadows last year, it's her first Grand Slam match since she pulled out of the French Open after one round for mental health reasons.

NEW YORK -- Naomi Osaka did not want to be cut off. She did not want to be rescued. Yes, she was crying in her US Open postmatch news conference, crying as she struggled to find the right words so ...

Novak Djokovic is well aware that his two-track pursuit of men’s tennis history at the U.S. Open — the first calendar-year Grand Slam in more than a half-century and a record 21st major title ...