World tennis No 1 Naomi Osaka splits with coach Sascha Bajin HOWARD FENDRICH, AP TENNIS WRITERTERTIUS PICKARD/AP Sascha Bajin talks to Naomi Osaka during her semifinal match against Lesia Tsurenko of Ukraine at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane last month. Naomi Osaka has surprisingly split from coach Sascha Bajin, a little more than two weeks after she won the Australian Open for a second consecutive Grand Slam title and moved to No. "Hey everyone, I will no longer be working together with Sascha,'' Osaka posted on Twitter on Monday. Osaka's agent confirmed to The Associated Press that Osaka would no longer be working with Bajin, the 2018 WTA Coach of the Year, but said there would be no further comment. — sascha Bajin (@BigSascha) February 11, 2019Less than a half-hour after Osaka's tweet, Bajin responded to her on Twitter.

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