Naomi Osaka is almost certain to switch hotels if she returns to Montreal in the future after being woken multiple times by a fire alarm.
On Friday, Osaka produced one of her best performances of the season to defeat Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-4 at the 2025
Canadian Open. The four-time Grand Slam champion's return, often a weakness, was superb against the Latvian, and she broke six times.
That was Osaka's third victory of the tournament. She had struggled during the previous few months, which led to
her split from Serena Williams and Simona Halep's former coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, after less than a year.
Tomasz Wiktorowski, who coached Iga Swiatek for almost three years,
replaced Mouratoglou. The Canadian Open is their first tournament together, and they must be thrilled about making such a positive start.
However, Osaka, Wiktorowski, and the rest of the Japanese star's coaching team might be in a worse mood currently than they expected after being up in the early hours due to a fire alarm, something Osaka outlined in Instagram stories.
At 4:40 am, Osaka did her first story to reveal she was awake because of the fire alarm and that it was not the first time it had happened during her stay at the hotel since arriving in Montreal.
"Idk what's going on with this hotel, but another false fire alarm is crazy."
Thirteen minutes later, at 4:43 a.m., the alarm had still not been turned off. Osaka's frustration grew, and she slammed the situation as a joke in her second Instagram story about the unfortunate ordeal.
At 4:54 am, the alarm was still going. At that point, Osaka and other team members sat together, waiting for the noise to stop. The former
WTA world No. 1 wrote that they were hanging out since none of them could sleep.
"We're just hanging out at this point."
Osaka finally got some respite by 5:20 a.m. when the alarm stopped beeping. At that stage, she hoped it would not begin again, but there were no further updates about being woken again by it.
"Finally stopped, fingers crossed."
Although the two-time US Open winner's frustration was entirely understandable, at least she did not have a match on Saturday after that ordeal. Her round of 16 contest against Anastasija Sevastova is scheduled for Sunday.
Osaka and her team might have discussed getting a new hotel for Saturday evening, although switching at such short notice is often not easy. She may have to just hope a false alarm does not occur for a third time.
Many people would be irritated by being kept awake by a false fire alarm in the early hours. Fans probably have more sympathy for Osaka than Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who made a statement expressing anger about being scheduled to play a match at 11:00 a.m.
The Spaniard's complaints led to
a brutal response from Daniel Evans. He told Davidovich Fokina that people worldwide work 9-5 pm and sometimes 8-6 pm, and that he should wake up and play without whining.