[iGOAT]

Naomi's star keeps rising! Solidifying herself as the new face of the WTA, Osaka has now passed Eugenie Bouchard in follower count on Instagram (although when you add Twitter, her combined total is still a lot less than Genie).

She still has almost 9 million less than her idol WW though (2.2 million versus 13 million), so a long way to go there. But she's still seen explosive growth; approximately 1 million new followers in the past year if I'm not mistaken, and I'm sure the social media rise can't hurt her already enormous endorsement portfolio.

Williams, Osaka, and Bouchard as faces of the tour is a nice and fairly diverse group, but also explains the WTA's relative lack of prominence in Europe these days.

Eugenie's growth has been relatively flat lately. Hopefully she can do something like win a slam or come up with another Hollywood fairytale story soon to keep growing her enormous following!

EDIT: Just realized Sania Mirza is second of all players (though she doesn't play singles anymore); she actually has 7 million followers! Why isn't the WTA promoting her more?!

 

[MoonballPusher]

If we ever get a top 10 singles player from India, their social media following will be absolutely massive.

 

[344681]

Naomi (or Mari) started a new IG account last week... teamnaomi_jp - it's all in Japanese, so I'm not sure what's being said on it.
Seems like a behind the scenes look at stuff going on with Naomi, not sure why that stuff couldn't just be put on her main account.

 

[Luca Van Diesel]

Goes to show you how poor is Genie's management if Naomi has surpassed her

 

[iGOAT]

Goes to show you how poor is Genie's management if Naomi has surpassed her

Eugenie said she tries not to post bikini pics anymore. I doubt her followers are thrilled.

 

[Wiggly]

Her engagement numbers are insane, though. No WTA player is even close to her.

 

[vogus_emeritus]

Only on instagram tho. Genie has twice as much Twitter and thrice as much Facebook followers.

Facebook followers?? People are still counting that shit like it means something? Facebook is trash.

 

[Paullow Badosa]

Only on instagram tho. Genie has twice as much Twitter and thrice as much Facebook followers.

Aye, only because Naomi has blocked about a million.

 

[vogus_emeritus]

Eugenie said she tries not to post bikini pics anymore. I doubt her followers are thrilled.

why should she post bikini pics for free to get ogled by hundreds of thousands of morons? There's FansOnly and other pay-to-play sites for that stuff.

 

[Chris .]

Aye, only because Naomi has blocked about a million.

yes naomi has blocked me also and everybody knows I will never say something bad about her. I had not even a tweet to her , so she scan her name and block everybody. how weird is that ?

its strange that the rapper boyfriend has also 2 M followers at insta because nobody knows him so it must been her followers who also will follow him

 

[Chris .]

Facebook followers?? People are still counting that shit like it means something? Facebook is trash.

only old granny s sit on Fb
I dont have even a account anymore

 

[breadstal]

Naomi (or Mari) started a new IG account last week... teamnaomi_jp - it's all in Japanese, so I'm not sure what's being said on it.
Seems like a behind the scenes look at stuff going on with Naomi, not sure why that stuff couldn't just be put on her main account.

It's normal for many pop stars to have additional Japanese accounts, probably to please Japanese fans, a huge and dedicated market. Naomi barely posts anything in JPN from what I've seen so that's how she can connect more to the public and her followers.x

 

[iGOAT]

why should she post bikini pics for free to get ogled by hundreds of thousands of morons? There's FansOnly and other pay-to-play sites for that stuff.

A) Because she's hot and she knows it
B) The more followers, the higher the appearance fees and endorsement deals

 

[Anarose Voli]

EDIT: Just realized Sania Mirza is second of all players (though she doesn't play singles anymore); she actually has 7 million followers! Why isn't the WTA promoting her more?!

Because these 7 million followers won't buy as much as 700.000 of Bouchard's.

 

[RybaKenina]

Maria (4.2) has more than Osaka. She's #3 after Serena and Sania.

Overall in General Singles it's:
1. Serena 13m
2. Rafa 10m
3. Federer 8m
4. Djokovic 8m
5. Sania 7m
6. Sharapova 4m
7. Naomi Osaka 2m
8. Eugenie 2m

 

[Katerina]

only old granny s sit on Fb
I dont have even a account anymore

I am not old granny. Facebook has different function then Insta or Twitter.

 

[Paullow Badosa]

yes naomi has blocked me also and everybody knows I will never say something bad about her. I had not even a tweet to her , so she scan her name and block everybody. how weird is that ?

its strange that the rapper boyfriend has also 2 M followers at insta because nobody knows him so it must been her followers who also will follow him

I only know of 3 accounts that have blocked me, and she is one of them, and the only one involved in tennis. I'm a fan, but mine would have been to do with that Cincy incident last year, but she, or her social media team, would have definitely needed to scan her name and go out of their way, as it was indirect, and it wasn't even that bad, ha.

 

[iGOAT]

Maria (4.2) has more than Osaka. She's #3 after Serena and Sania.

Overall in General Singles it's:
1. Serena 13m
2. Rafa 10m
3. Federer 8m
4. Djokovic 8m
5. Sania 7m
6. Sharapova 4m
7. Naomi Osaka 2m
8. Eugenie 2m

Sharapova is retired and this forum is about the WTA.

Also wtf about blocking people. That is batshit. If Naomi is into this cancel culture bullshit then I respect her less

 

[Chris .]

I only know of 3 accounts that have blocked me, and she is one of them, and the only one involved in tennis. I'm a fan, but mine would have been to do with that Cincy incident last year, but she, or her social media team, would have definitely needed to scan her name and go out of their way, as it was indirect, and it wasn't even that bad, ha.

yes the same with me
I dont even know what I was tweeting , it was about naomi but nothing negative and I was not tweeting to her so she or her team was scan her own name and she block everyone who said someting about her what she dont likes.

Oh I think I said something about that she is sometimes emotional instabile and that is no lie and then she blocked me till this day .

 

[vogus_emeritus]

Aye, only because Naomi has blocked about a million.

if Osaka has really felt the need to block a million people on Twitter, this is surely a sign of trouble ahead for her in terms of her public image.