(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE N.Y. Yankees 9, Tampa Bay Rays 1 Detroit Tigers 8, Cleveland Guardians 2 Texas Rangers 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Oakland Athletics 4, Houston Astros 0 Los Angeles Angels 3, Seattle Mariners 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh Pirates 2, St. Louis Cardinals 1 Final N.Y. Mets 6, Miami Marlins 4 Final Cincinnati Reds 4, Atlanta Braves 1 Final Chicago Cubs 3, Milwaukee Brewers 1 San Francisco Giants 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
INTERLEAGUE Minnesota Twins 7, Philadelphia Phillies 2 Kansas City Royals 10, Arizona Diamondbacks 4 Boston Red Sox 8, Colorado Rockies 9
(NEW YORK) — Naomi Osaka is opening up after her loss at the Cincinnati Open on Monday.
The four-time Grand Slam singles champion failed to make the main draw in Cincinnati after losing in a qualifying match against Ashlyn Krueger. On Sunday, she won her opening match in the qualifying tournament against Anna Blinkova.
On Tuesday, Osaka took to Instagram to reflect on the loss and said that what she’s feeling is similar to “being postpartum.”
“In a weird way I’ve come to appreciate losses, you don’t play tennis for 20+ years without your fair share of them,” Osaka began. “You learn from a loss and then eagerly await your next opportunity to put what you learned to test.”
“My biggest issue currently isn’t losses though, my biggest issue is that I don’t feel like I’m in my body,” she continued. “It’s a strange feeling, missing balls I shouldn’t miss, hitting balls softer than I remember I used to. I try and tell myself ‘it’s fine you’re doing great, just get through this one and keep pushing’, mentally it’s really draining though.”
“Internally I hear myself screaming ‘what the hell is happening?!?!'” she added.
The two-time U.S. Open champion went on and acknowledged that Monday’s loss is possibly part of “a small phase from all the new transitions (clay, grass, clay, hard etc),” but said she could only like the feeling that she’s experiencing to “being postpartum.”
“That scares [me] because I’ve been playing tennis since I was 3, the tennis racquet should feel like an extension of my hand,” she said. “I don’t understand why everything has to feel almost brand new again. This should be as simple as breathing to me but it’s not and I genuinely did not give myself grace for that fact until just now.”
Osaka said that she is learning and will continue to put in the work every day — which is something she hopes to teach her daughter.
“I love the process (though the process doesn’t love me sometimes haha), putting in work everyday and eventually having the opportunity to get to where you want to be,” she said. “I know life isn’t guaranteed so I want to do the best that I can with the time that I have, I want to teach my daughter that she can achieve so many things with hard work and perseverance. I want her to aim for the stars and never think her dreams are too big.”
“Nothing in life is promised but I realized that I can promise myself to work as hard as I can and give it my best shot till the very end,” she added.
Osaka ended her message with, “See you in New York ♥️,” noting that she will play again at the U.S. Open at the end of the month.
2024 marks Osaka’s tennis comeback a year after welcoming her daughter in July 2023.
Last month, she competed in singles at the Olympics but lost to Angelique Kerber in the first round.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE New York Mets 7, Boston Red Sox 2 Philadelphia Phillies 10, Toronto Blue Jays 9 Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Los Angeles Angels 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay Rays 2, Minnesota Twins 1 Baltimore Orioles 9, Chicago White Sox 0 Cleveland Guardians 7, Kansas City Royals 1 Texas Rangers 7, New York Yankees 4 Seattle Mariners 2, Oakland A’s 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE Washington Nationals 6, Miami Marlins 2 Atlanta Braves 3, Colorado Rockies 0 Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Chicago Cubs 0 St. Louis Cardinals 7, Milwaukee Brewers 4 Arizona Diamondbacks 8, San Francisco Giants 7
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Seattle Storm 71, Connecticut Sun 64 Washington Mystics 90, Dallas Wings 86 Atlanta Dream 66, Phoenix Mercury 74 Chicago Sky 71, Las Vegas Aces 90
(PARIS) — Team USA women’s gymnastics stars Simone Biles and Sunisa Lee came up empty in the balance beam final on Monday.
After Simone Biles secured her third gold medal of the Paris Olympics on Saturday, she and Lee both notched identical scores of 13.1000, which wasn’t enough to make the podium.
Italy’s Alice D’Amato secured gold with a 14.366, Yaqin Zhou of China scored 14.100 for silver, edging out Manila Esposito by just .1, who took bronze.
Lee, who earned her sixth career Olympic medal on Sunday with bronze in the uneven bars final, went third in the rotation and scored a 13.100.
Biles, who scored a 14.733 in qualifying, tied her teammate with the exact same score — 13.100 — due to a .3 point penalty.
The 10-time Olympic medalist will compete in the women’s floor exercise final back in Bercy Arena later on Monday, along with teammate Jordan Chiles.