WTA: Naomi Osaka parts ways with coach

Former world number one Naomi Osaka is parting ways with her Belgian coach Wim Fissette after two years. The Japanese announced this on Instagram on Friday.

Osaka and Fissette have worked together twice: from 2019 to summer 2022 and from summer 2023 – when Osaka returned to the tour after the birth of her daughter – until the current separation. With Fissette, Osaka won the 2020 US Open and the 2021 Australian Open.

However, since her actual comeback on the tennis court in January 2024, the former world number one has struggled to regain her level and string together successes. Her victory in the first round of the US Open against Jelena Ostapenko in late August was her first victory against a member of the top 10 in the last four years.

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