Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka revealed she practiced with Nick Kyrgios in Los Angeles and there she intently watched the Australian’s serve approach. Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, needs to enhance her serve and he or she used a observe session with Kyrgios to be taught a factor or two from top-of-the-line servers on the Tour.

“I hit with Nick in Los Angeles, and I used to be watching his like kind from very shut up, and he does like this slide factor after which he places his two ft collectively and helps him explode extra. I’ve been actually specializing in that a part of my approach,” Osaka stated, per Tennis Majors.

Kyrgios defended Osaka

Osaka’s Indian Wells marketing campaign got here to an finish on an unlucky manner as she suffered a second spherical defeat after being visibly upset and distraught on the courtroom. Early within the first set a fan began heckling Osaka and the Japanese did not take it properly as she began crying and needed the chair umpire to throw the heckler out of the stadium.

Osaka ended up struggling a 6-0 6-4 loss to Veronika Kudermetova. A number of days later, Kyrgios was heckled throughout his Indian Wells quarterfinal in opposition to Rafael Nadal. After the match, Kyrgios blasted those that come to matches simply to heckle athletes and to attempt to make them really feel unhealthy.

“It’s getting worse due to social media, folks assume that they are related impulsively. Like, you are not related,” Kyrgios stated. “You’ve somewhat social media account that you simply kind to folks on.

You unfold negativity. It is embarrassing, and you may see the way it impacts folks. It is affecting Westbrook. It impacts folks. It impacts Osaka. It affected me for years and it isn’t okay.” In the meantime, Osaka made a constructive begin to her Miami marketing campaign as she defeated Astra Sharma and Angelique Kerber.