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The quadruple Grand Chelem champion, Naomi Osaka, had a first raw first round at the France Open on Monday.
Osaka entered Roland Garros wearing a pink kit inspired by “Sakura” or cherry trees. She had problems almost immediately because she was forced to cut her nails in the middle of the match against Paula Badosa, 10th seeded. She had 54 unl forced mistakes.
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Japan Naomi Osaka strikes a forehand against Paula Badosa Spanish during their first match of the French tennis open, at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris on Monday, May 26, 2025. (Photo / Christophe Ena)
Naomi Osaka from Japan examines her nails at an end change in his match against Paula Badosa in Spain on the second day at Roland Garros Stadium in Paris on May 26, 2025. (Images Susan Mullane-Imagn)
Badosa won the 6-7 match (1), 6-1, 6-4 on Osaka. The Japanese superstar was turned upside down after defeat.
“Over time, I feel like I should do better,” she said. “But also – I already talked about it, maybe a few years ago, or maybe recently, I’m not sure – I hate disappointing people.”
She also expressed a feeling of regret that she dropped her coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, who previously worked with Serena Williams.
“He goes to work with it, like, the greatest player of all time, like:” What is the F — Is it? ” You know what I mean?” She said. “Sorry for the curse. I hope I will not be sentenced to a fine.”
Detailed view of the flowers on the nails of Naomi Osaka from Japan during his match against Paula Badosa in Spain on the second day at the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris on May 26, 2025. (Images Susan Mullane-Imagn)
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Osaka also treated blisters on her hands as she cut her nails. She theorized that it was the clay courts that gave her the problem.
“From Rome, I had blisters on my hands,” she said, via tennis.com. “I think it’s like the friction of the clay, because I have no blisters on any other surface. But I was a little used, because I also had to ask the physio in Rome.”
Osaka was a previous world n ° 1 when it dominated the 2018 US Open and won the 2019 Australian Open just after. She did it again in 2020 when she won the US Open and followed a victory at the Australian Open 2021.
It was the Open of France and Wimbledon that has always given trouble from Osaka.
She never got out of the third round at the French Open.
Japan Naomi Osaka strikes a forehand against Paula Badosa Spanish during their first match of the French tennis open, at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris on Monday, May 26, 2025. (Photo / Christophe Ena)
Osaka did not engage in one way or another in the version leading to Wimbledon.
“I don’t necessarily know my herbs seasonal schedule right now,” said Osaka. “I didn’t really expect to lose in the first round.”
