TAG Heuer Ambassador Naomi Osaka Falls to WTA Women's Singles Rank of 85 AOC Fashion

Naomi Osaka arrived at this year’s Australian Open, hoping to turn around a personally-agonizing, very public 2021 challenge to her pro tennis career.

LVMH brand TAG Heuer hoped that their brand ambassador Naomi Osaka would offer positive proof that her special mint green Aquaracer Connected smartwatch was on her wrist, celebrating her return to champion status.

Clearly Osaka could have worn the watch to her championship press conference, had she won the 2022 Australian Open, as the defending champion..

TAG Heuer’s CEO Frédéric Arnault expressed surprise to press that Osaka couldn’t wear her gorgeous green Aquaracer Connected smartwatch on the pro-tennis court. And while AOC loves LVMH to death — and we do, based on the heaps of praise we shower over the Arnault family every week on this website — we don’t believe Frédéric Arnault assertion for one nanosecond:

“We tried, but she cannot wear any connected watch while playing professionally, because players aren’t allowed to communicate with others off the court during a match. And this would be considered a communication device,” he revealed.

Nonsense! LOL. We all know that the tennis players can’t wear or carry smart communications devices in play, and AOC refuses to believe that such business masterminds as the folks at TAG Heurer didn’t know that fact. Nice try, guys.

Naomi Osaka Falls to 85 in WTA Women’s Singles Ratings

Unfortunately, 2022 didn’t start off well for Naomi Osaka, who pulled out of the Melbourne WTA tournament runup to the Open, saying that her body was “in shock” over playing demanding tennis matches back-to-back. Naomi needed to rest her pulled muscles, and sports writers noted that Osaka had pulled out of other warmup tournaments and to hold our collective angst.

In reality, the Australian Open didn’t go much better for Naomi Osaka, who suffered a stunning defeat to upstart American Amanda Anisimova in the third round.

A totally-composed Naomi Osaka did make major progress in front of the cameras, highlighting the reality that she actually had fun playing in the Australian Open tournament. Osaka also reminded us that she’s “not God’ and she can’t win every match, no matter how much heart she’s putting into her tennis game.

In that crushing moment for prior champion, we prepared AOC readers for an epic Naomi Osaka fall in the WTA women’s singles rankings. This morning, January 31, 2022 Naomi Osaka fell — not to 84 in the WTA pro tennis rankings — but to 85.