Down a set and two games away from losing the match, Brady easily could have packed it in. If there is one thing the tennis world knows now that it did not know six months ago, it is that Brady does not go away. But she hooked on with a new coach, Michael Geserer, in early 2019, someone she had never met before, and went to work. “Every time she goes on the court, she leaves everything on the court,” Geserer said. Osaka said that after their battle at the U.S. Open, she told her team that Brady was “going to be a problem.”

Source: New York Times February 20, 2021 11:36 UTC