We’re taking Naomi Osaka, hoping we’re improper

Former ATP stars John Isner and Sam Querrey are anxiously hoping Coco Gauff proves them improper in selecting Naomi Osaka as the favourite within the American and Japanese’s imminent conflict on the 2025 US Open. In accordance with Isner and Querrey, Osaka, given her kind up to now at Flushing Meadows, appears to be like extra prone to win the fourth-round match in comparison with Gauff, who has proven indicators of vulnerability in New York this 12 months.

Each WTA stars have up to now dropped a set every of their respective ladies’s singles campaigns on the hardcourt Main. Nonetheless, throughout the primary two rounds, Gauff’s serve seemed fairly suspect, regardless of the two-time Slam champion having roped in biomechanics skilled Gavin MacMillan forward of the match to resolve her serve struggles.

In the meantime, Osaka dispatched her opponents within the first and second rounds in straight units pretty comfortably after which narrowly misplaced the second set of her third-round encounter towards Daria Kasatkina earlier than dashing the Australian’s hopes.

Talking on a recently-released episode of the Nothing Main podcast, by which the fourth-round matches have been previewed, co-hosts John Isner and Sam Querrey instructed fellow co-host and ex-ATP star Steve Johnson that they assume Naomi Osaka goes to beat Coco Gauff. On listening to this, Johnson quipped again:

“So that you’re simply hedging your wager actually? You are selecting one however you need the opposite to win” (from 18:59)

Right here, Isner dismissed Johnson’s query and mentioned:

“I am not hedging a wager. I feel Naomi’s going to win and I am cheering for Coco.”

Later, Querrey echoed Isner’s sentiments, saying:

“We’re taking Osaka and hoping we’re improper and it is Coco (who wins)”

Osaka and Gauff are set to lock horns on the 2025 US Open on Monday, September 1.

“To be enjoying Coco Gauff once more feels type of particular” – Naomi Osaka on going through American at US Open 2025

Naomi Osaka and Coco Gauff’s maiden assembly got here within the third spherical of ladies’s singles motion on the 2019 US Open. Right here, the Japanese registered a 6-3, 6-0 win over Gauff, who, on the time, was solely 15 and nonetheless very a lot discovering her ft in professional tennis.

Expressing how a lot it means for her to play the American once more at Flushing Meadows, Osaka instructed Vivienne Christie (for the official Australian Open web site):

“I imply my recollections have been that I bear in mind simply figuring out that she was going to be a extremely nice tennis participant, which I used to be. She was what, 15 on the time and I believed she simply dealt with herself very well and I knew she was going to be again there.”

The Japanese added:

“So now to be enjoying her once more after six years, I do not know if that makes me outdated, however, yeah, simply to be at this level of my life and to be enjoying her once more is truthfully, for me, feels type of particular.”

Previous to their 2025 US Open assembly, Coco Gauff leads Naomi Osaka 3-2 within the pair’s head-to-head.