Everybody is rooting for this Japanese star to find her form, while she battles anxiety, depression and a wayward game. Osaka has somehow become a fragile and pitiable athlete, having dropped six of her last 11 matches to the likes of Maria Sakkari, Karolina Muchova, Jessica Pegula, Ana Bogdan, Marketa Vondrousova and Jil Teichmann. Those players don’t really swim in her talent pool, but then Osaka is no longer the Osaka we saw sweeping through the Australian Open mere months ago.
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