3 Naomi Osaka in the Australian Open final on Saturday morning, weeks after she was forced to quarantine in Melbourne.
A passenger on her charter flight to Australia tested positive for coronavirus, leaving Brady and 51 other players forbidden from leaving their hotel rooms for two weeks.
Instead of being able to practice on a court or even get a whiff of fresh air, Brady, the World No.22-ranked player, pushed her mattress up against the wall and hit tennis balls into it.
If they say, ‘Don’t leave the room, don’t open the door, like in quarantine,’ she doesn’t break the rules.
The approach paid off: not only is Brady the only quarantined player to have made it past the third round, the UCLA product has a shot at revenge for a 2020 US Open semifinal that Osaka won in three back-and-forth sets.A post shared by Jennifer Brady (@jenny_brady7).Brady earned her first wins over top-20 players in 2019 after joining forces with Gerserer, then beat No.