Naomi Osaka Took Home ‘Big Fit of the Night’ Gold at Our GQ Men of the Year Party 2024

For GQ’s American Rodeo, Osaka wore a saloon-ready Amiri getup: a relaxed white shirt, loosened black leather necktie, and studded black trousers. Wearing her hair down in long, blond-flecked braids, she accessorized with a black felt hat and tobacco-toned suede cowboy boots by Havva.

After Osaka removed her wide-brimmed hat for Welch to place the medal around her neck, Welch asked the tennis champ to share a few words.

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“I don’t know if you should trust me with a microphone in my hand,” joked the refreshingly outspoken tennis champ. She shouted out Mike Amiri’s namesake label, who designed her getup, as well as the hearty sartorial efforts of the rest of the partygoers. “I was surveying everyone’s outfits and everyone looks amazing,” she said.

But Osaka—whose 2024 return to the courts after giving birth to her and partner Cordae’s first child last year was often sidelined by injuries and upsets—had one more zinger for the crowd.

“It feels great to win a medal this year,” she said with a laugh, as the crowd cheered. And that’s a feeling we can all raise a glass to.