Naomi Osaka Net Worth 2021: Age, Career, Bio

She is a professional Japanese tennis player and she has been ranked one by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA). Naomi Osaka Net Worth 2021 is in many millions she earned within a very early age of her career.WTA is the main organising body of Women’s Tennis. She is also the first Asian tennis player to hold the top ranking in singles. She is the four-time  Grand Slam singles champion at the U.S.Open & the Australian Open.

Early Life

She was born on 16th October 1997 in  Chou-Ku which is one of the 24 wards of Osaka, Japan. Her father’s name is Leonard Francois & mother’s name is Tamaki Osaka. She has also an older sister named Mari, she is also a professional tennis player. At the age of three, she moved from Japan to New York United States with her parents.

Career

She becomes a professional tennis player in September 2013 at the age of sixteen. She entered her first two qualifying draws on the WTA Tour that same month at The 2013 Challenge Bell in Québec and the second one is the 2013 Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.

She began her 2016 first WTA by playing three tournaments in Australia. She becomes the near top 100 players which allow her to play in WTA tour Level events all year. She qualified for the first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open. She also received the wild card for the Miami Open.

During the tournaments, she won two matches & becomes in the top 100 of the WTA rankings for the first time. In Melbourne 2016 Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina defeated Victoria Duval in straight sets, before losing to her in the second round.

The same year in French Open she ranked so high that she directly comes into the main draw of the French Open. She also won the first set against the Romanian professional Simona Halep but she lost at the match.

At the US Open in August, she reached the third round at the Grand Slam event for the third time in the same year. During her match against Keys, she had a 5-1 lead in the third set before ultimately losing in the tiebreak.

After the wonderful improvement in the last year in  2017, she maintained a steady ranking throughout the season. Her best tournament result of the season came at the Canadian Open. In this tournament, she reached the round of sixteen as a qualifier. Her next best result comes in the last two Grand Slam events of the season, where she made it to the third round at each of the 2017 Wimbledon Championships and the US Open. Her US Open was then highlighted by her first-round win against defending champion world no -6 German professional tennis player Angelique Kerber, the first top ten win of her career.

In the 2018 Australian Open she reached the fourth round after defeating the two top twenty players first one Russian professional Elena Vesnina & the second one  Australian professional Ashleigh Barty but ultimately losing to world no 1 Simona Halep. This achievement helps her to regain the top 50 within the month.

Tennis legend Serena Williams suffered back to back early exits at Indian Wells and Miami, losing in the third round at Indian Wells to her sister Venus and the first round at Miami to the 2018 Indian Wells champion. At the 2019 Cincinnati Open, she was defeated by American professional Serena Williams and Sofia Kenin respectively. Czech professional tennis player Karolina Pliskova defeated her to take Pan Pacific Open 2018 in her eleventh career title.In the Canadian Open 2018 Polish professional tennis player Iga Swiatek’ upset No. 18  Danish former professional Caroline Wozniacki before losing to her.

At the  2020 US Open American professional tennis player Jennifer Brady recorded another straight-set win over the 23rd seed Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player Yulia Putintseva to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal, where she lost to her in three sets.

Canadian professional Bianca Andreescu made her next return at her home tournament, the 2020 Canadian Open, where Bianca won her second high-level Premier tournament of the year. Bianca’s  17-match win was ended in the quarterfinals of the China Open by her.

In the 2021 Australian Open she recorded straight-sets wins over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Caroline Garcia, and Ons Jabeur, before defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in three sets in the fourth round without facing match points during the second set.

Endorsements

She is one of the most notable tennis players in the World now. She earned approximately $ 16 Million (Rs 1,16.08 Cr) in 2019. The next year she becomes the highest-paid female athlete of all time having earned $37.4 million (Rs 2,71.34 Cr) in total.

Social Media

This Japanese tennis celebrity has a huge fan following on social media. She has 870.7k followers on Twitter & on Instagram, she has 2 million followers as of February 2021.