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Pan Pacific Open 2019: Top seed Naomi Osaka beats Elise Mertens in straight sets to advance to finals

Osaka will now face the unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final on Sunday

Naomi Osaka splits with coach Jermaine Jenkins following US Open fourth-round exit

Osaka has now sacked her second coach in seven months and took to Twitter to announce that she feels that the time is right for the change

US Open 2019: An interactive timeline of defending champion Naomi Osaka's year since her breakthrough moment at Flushing Meadows

Naomi Osaka has had a year to remember, winning two Grand Slam titles and reaching No 1 in the WTA Rankings, and in this timeline, we take you through the highs and lows of it.

Stuttgart Open: Naomi Osaka brushes aside 'rough few months' to beat Hsieh Su-wei; Angelique Kerber enters quarter-finals

World No 1 Naomi Osaka defeated Hsieh Su-wei 6-4, 6-3 in Stuttgart on Thursday to reach her first career clay court quarter-final but admitted she had been left "depressed" after a "rough few months

Miami Open: Naomi Osaka’s stint as World No 1 has stopped being fun, and it’s not hard to see why

While Hsieh deserves every plaudit coming her way for her wickedly masterful performance, it’s hard not to feel worried about Osaka's growing uneasiness with her newfound fame and expectations.

Indian Wells Open: World No 1 Naomi Osaka finds positives despite loss to Belinda Bencic in Round of 16

World No 1 Naomi Osaka was trying to find the positives after her Indian Wells WTA title defense went up in smoke on Tuesday.

World No 1 Naomi Osaka hires Jermaine Jenkins as new coach ahead of WTA Indian Wells

World No 1 Naomi Osaka welcomed US coach Jermaine Jenkins to her team on Thursday, just in time for her title defense at Indian Wells next week.

Listen: Full script of Episode 145 of Spodcast where we discuss Chris Gayle's retirement from ODI cricket and more

Welcome to Spodcast, where we cover the big sports headlines of the day. Today, we discuss Chris Gayle's announcement of retirement from ODI cricket after 2019 World Cup, Real Madrid's shock loss to Girona in LaLiga and other news stories.

World No 1 Naomi Osaka says 'happiness' was the reason behind shock split with coach Sascha Bajin

Talking about the split with Sascha Bajin, Naomi Osaka said: "Everyone thinks it was a money-related issue, but it wasn't. That's one of the most hurtful things I've ever heard... I think my reason is I wouldn't put success over my happiness — that's my main thing."

Naomi Osaka's split with coach Sascha Bajin ill-timed as youngster looks to step out of hard-court comfort zone

One might argue that having won two back-to-back Grand Slams, Osaka has nothing to prove at the moment. On the contrary, it is now, out of her true comfort zone, having to maintain momentum after summiting the peak, as it were, that her harshest tests will come.