Naomi Osaka walked off the clay at the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday with a 6-2, 7-5 victory over Colombia's Camila Osorio and something that has been in short supply lately. A reason to feel good about where her season is headed.
The win took 78 minutes. Osaka closed out the match by winning the…
Ten years ago, a Washington, D.C., mother named Shari Baptiste sat down and wrote a GoFundMe appeal on behalf of her 15-year-old daughter, a promising young tennis player whose growing talent was outpacing the family's ability to fund it. Tournament travel, coaching fees and the general cost of competing at a high junior level had…

