Naomi Osaka’s tournament path to her second final in her career, the US Open turned out to be difficult. Three times she had to play three-set fights, confront the rivals, who just reached the peak of their form in New York. However, the Japanese tennis player coped with tasks and deservedly reached the final. In our predictions for the matches with Naomi’s participation, we noted her progress, improvement of the game directly during the tournament. In the last three matches in New York against Anette Kontaveit (6-3, 6-4), Shelby Rogers (6-3, 6-4) and Jennifer Brady (7-6, 3-6, 6-3) Osaka gave her serve only two times. At the same time, rivals had only three break points for three. Such indicators are impressive. In women’s tennis it is not often that you see such reliable play on your serve over several matches in a row. Osaka has consistently shown over 80% of her first serve points in each of her last matches. Even taking into account the excellent reception performed by Victoria Azarenka, it will clearly not be easy to contain such as Naomi.
Although it seemed impossible, but Arsenal did save last season. The Gunners finished eighth in the Premier League, which is the club’s worst record in 25 years! However, Mikel Arteta’s team won the FA Cup by qualifying directly for the Europa League group stage. The Spaniard began to improve Arsenal’s game and in the last 12 official matches, the Gunners lost only two times. Unlike Chelsea, Arsenal were not very active in the transfer market, strengthening, first of all, the most problematic place. The Gunners bought two center-backs. Gabriel Magalhaes came from Lille for 26 million euros and Pablo Marie flew in from Flamengo. For him, Arsenal gave 8 million euros. The arrival of Willian from Chelsea, who has moved to North London as a free agent, is also an excellent transfer. Before the start of the Premier League Arsenal even managed to win a new title. The Gunners beat Liverpool on penalties in the FA Super Cup. In friendly matches, the Arteta team also played against Milton Keynes Dons, defeating the opponent 4:1 and in another match, Arsenal shot QPR (4:3).
