It’s a changed landscape at the top as Osaka returns to the Australian Open

So much has modified on this planet of girls’s tennis for the reason that 2022 U.S. Open, when Naomi Osaka final performed a serious match.

Aryna Sabalenka went from a great participant who couldn’t get it completed on the most important stage to an important participant who’s defending a Grand Slam title for the primary time this month in Melbourne.

American Coco Gauff, lengthy pegged as a future No. 1 and the inheritor obvious to the Williams sisters, broke by way of in September together with her first main on the U.S. Open.