The Japanese Naomi Osaka has won the WTA tournament in Beijing after a competitive game. The Australian Open champion prevailed in the final against world number one Ashleigh Barty 3: 6, 6: 3, 6: 2 and celebrated against the Australian her fifth overall title win on the WTA Tour. Osaka turned their second match point after 1:51 hours.
The 21-year-old Osaka collected just under $ 1.5 million in prize money, for Barty there were about $ 760,000. For the former world number one, who had won her second Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January, it was the tenth victory in series. In late September, she had won in her hometown of Osaka in the final against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova without losing a set.
Since coaching unbeaten
Thus, the Japanese woman has finally overcome her months of form crisis. At the French Open, Wimbledon and at the US Open she had failed early. After leaving New York, Osaka pulled personal consequences and separated from her trainer Jermaine Jenkins. "I feel it's the right time to change," the 21-year-old wrote on Twitter. Since then she is still unbeaten.
Only at the beginning of the year had the Japanese after her victory at the Australian Open, her cooperation with the German coach Sascha Bajin ended - shortly after she had taken over the world ranking list as the only 26th player. Among the reasons for the end of the cooperation made the 21-year-old no information.
With Jenkins, the Japanese woman, who will be the world's number four starting Monday, has been working together since February. About the reasons for the separation she made on Twitter no information. She wrote that she was "very grateful for the time together". Jenkins was formerly a training partner ("Hitting Partner") by the US-American Venus Williams.