Japan's Naomi Osaka ended an eight-month title dry spell by winning Pan Pacific Open in her home city on September 22, her first trophy since her second back to back Grand Slam triumphs at US Open and Australian Open. 

A special win for Osaka

former world number one overpowered Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-2, 6-3 in a little more than an hour to make it third time lucky in finals at competition after finishing as a runner up in 2016 and 2018.

US-based star, holder of last year's US Open, was born in Osaka and it was a happy homecoming for 21-year-old who grinned her way through a predominant week on court. She turned into first Japanese player to win Pan Pacific title since Kimiko Date in 1995.

Naomi stated that she has alrey played finals here and that was her third final and winning that final me her really happy and feel special. She furr ded that her serves are doing really well.

world number 4 also said that she serves really helped her as Pavlyuchenkova is a big hitter on court as Osaka me it to final without dropping a set. 

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4 aces

Pavlyuchenkova h solution to Osaka's amazing and perfect first serves as Japanese won an ideal 100 per cent of points when her first serve was fruitful and battered opponent a with 4 aces.

Osaka snatched a 3-0 le at an early st in match and was once in a while troubled from that point on as World number 41 Russian was dominated and was t able to get a breakpoint while fan-favourite broke Pavlyuchenkova twice in first set and once in second set with a variety of incredible groundstrokes from two sides. 

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Osaka's initial hopes of winning were dashed when her match-winning point was overruled after Pavlyuchenkova's challenge.
It did t matter much as Osaka's backhand that went out as match was sealed a few minutes after Russian hit ball in net.

This win was a redemption for Osaka when Pavlyuchenkova defeated her in straight sets during 2017 Hong Kong Open tournament. 

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