clubgowi post of 2018 .................nomination #1
Oct 24, 2018
Not sure this is the post of the year, but I will be nominating one or two over the final months of 2018 as I feel they highlight what I am trying to do and what is available within the newsletter notes and will post a top ten posts for the year on the website, this is topical with the WTA Finals this week and will definitely make the ten !
I have been bigging up Naomi Osaka for two and a half years and ahead of her US Open final with Serena Williams wrote .......
Williams is still some way off full fitness, you only have to look at the two players to know who is in the better shape and Osaka is as fit as she has ever been. I really cannot oppose the youngster, it was 28 months ago and she was just 18 when I started to talk of her as top 5 and said that even her team had "not really begun to learn what this girl is capable of yet." It feels like we have been with her through a long but rewarding journey to reach this stage and I feel her odds today are greater than her chance of winning , so we can stay loyal and still probably get value !
It is nice when a plan comes together, early in 2016 and many times since, I had spoken about how good I felt Osaka was and whilst it might sound obvious now, most sports fans had never even heard of her at the time, but ability is not everything, you also need dedication/application and hard work and it was at the Italian Open back in May that I feel I wrote a hugely valuable piece on her, only a few lines, but it spoke about how she was prepared to make sacrifices to take the next step up ,giving herself every opportunity to do so.........
In Round 1 I noticed that the team around Osaka had grown and is pretty big now, that can be a bad thing, for the youngster and she is a very young 20yo, I think it is what is needed and they have clearly all been working hard. Just by looking at her, you can see that she is MUCH fitter and her movement around the court greatly improved, her serve has always been huge and she is getting even more out of it now and her average was around 190km (200 would get you into top 20 fastest of all time !) and to be honest she was not really trying for pure speed, her second serve looked improved and everything looked like it had been retweeked and upgraded and all this, since Indian Wells. Then I saw a couple of things on social media, Osaka working out a lot, including skipping and doing rope work right on arrival at Foro Italico more than a week ago, when others were signing in/on phones etc and she didn't want to waste a moment and when things click for someone as talented as Osaka and then she ups her work load and gets benefits from it, then everyone needs to take note.
I am biased of course, but that is a great piece , worth a week's subscription and more alone.
Three months later Osaka was US Open Champion !
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