Four-time main champion Naomi Osaka says she is “studying a number of classes” from being a mum and hopes these abilities can result in French Open success.
The 26-year-old Japanese participant has been reunited together with her 10-month-old daughter Shai in Paris after spending 5 weeks aside through the European clay-court swing.
Osaka agreed when requested if being a great clay-court participant required comparable abilities – endurance, resilience and adaptability – to being a mom.
“That’s a humorous query, however I do assume mums do should be all of these issues,” mentioned the previous world quantity one.
“There are folks which might be naturally like that anyway.
“But for me, I’m studying a number of classes by motherhood, and I hope that I can bear in mind to use them on the tennis court docket.”
On being reunited with Shai, she added: “Being away from her was actually powerful, however I referred to as her each day.
“I noticed how properly she was doing and I noticed how comfortable she was, in order that made me comfortable too.
“Yesterday she walked for the primary time, so I used to be actually comfortable about that. It’s actually cool to have her right here.”
Each of Osaka’s main triumphs have come on arduous courts – on the US Open in 2018 and 2020, and the Australian Open in 2019 and 2021.
Osaka has by no means been previous the final 32 on the Roland Garros clay.
Having returned from maternity depart in January, Osaka is ranked 134th on the planet and reached the final 16 on the clay on the Italian Open final week.
