Mari Osaka

Mari Osaka

Nation:	Japan Japan
Birthday:	3rd April 1996 (age 24)
Prize money:	$ 92,685
singles
Career record:	196: 161
Career title:	0 WTA , 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	280 (May 28, 2018)
Current placement:	326
Double
Career record:	4:16
Career title:	0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	907 (April 17, 2017)
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Mari Ōsaka ( Japanese 大坂まり , Ōsaka Mari ; born April 3, 1996 in Osaka , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese tennis player .

Career

Osaka prefers to play on the ITF Women's Circuit , but has not yet won a tournament there. Mari Osaka played her first professional match in January 2011 in Plantation . She won her first match a year later in May 2012 in Raleigh against Jessica Roland-Rosario . In September 2012 she reached a final for the first time at the $ 10,000 tournament in Amelia Island , where she lost to Jamie Loeb 3-6 and 5-7. In 2013 she was in the main round of a $ 50,000 tournament in Lexington for the first time, where she lost to Lauren Embree 2-6 and 4-6. Two months later she reached the round of 16 for the first time in October in Macon , a tournament endowed with 25,000 US dollars, where she was only barely defeated in three sets against Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri 6: 2, 4: 6 and 3: 6. Shortly thereafter, at the end of October, she made it to the round of 16 at the $ 50,000 tournament in New Braunfels , where she was defeated by Sanaz Marand 2: 6 and 3: 6. With further good results, she was able to advance to the top 600 in the individual world rankings at the beginning of 2014, but fell back to 862th place due to a less successful year by January 2015.

In 2015 she was able to improve her world ranking position with several good placements, including several round of 16 and quarter finals at $ 25,000 and $ 50,000 tournaments, and at the end of October 2015 she was among the top 500 in the world for the first time. By the end of February 2016, she was able to improve her position to 440. It achieved its best placement at the end of May 2018 with place 280.

family

Mari Ōsaka's father Leonard "San" François comes from Haiti , her Japanese mother Tamaki Ōsaka comes from the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . The grandfather disowned her mother for marrying a black man, so the family moved to the United States when Mari was six years old. There she grew up in Long Iceland in the state of New York on. The family later moved to Florida because of the better training opportunities .

Her sister Naomi , who is one and a half years younger , also plays tennis professionally; she won so far u. a. the US Open 2018 and the Australian Open 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Mari Osaka , itftennis.com
↑ ^a ^b Getting To Know ... Naomi Osaka. In: WTA Tennis. WTA Tour, July 30, 2014, accessed August 28, 2015 .
↑ Christoph Neidhart: Pale with pride. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 28, 2019, accessed January 28, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Osaka, Mari
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	大坂まり (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH	Osaka , Japan

[1] Mari Osaka , itftennis.com

[Getting_To_Know-2] Getting To Know ... Naomi Osaka. In: WTA Tennis. WTA Tour, July 30, 2014, accessed August 28, 2015 .

[3] Christoph Neidhart: Pale with pride. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 28, 2019, accessed January 28, 2019 .