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Two-time champion Naomi Osaka has pulled retired of the Australian Open, tourney organizers announced connected Sunday, without elaborating connected the reason.
“Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the Australian Open. We volition miss her astatine #AO2023,” the Australian Open tweeted.
Former satellite No. 1 Osaka was not listed to play successful warm-up tournaments successful Adelaide oregon Hobart, raising speculation astir her information successful the archetypal expansive slam of the year.
The 25-year-old took immoderate clip distant from competitory tennis and made respective highly publicized disclosures astir her struggles with mental health pursuing an incidental successful August 2021, wherever she was visibly stressed and affectional portion addressing the media during an obligatory quality league astatine Roland Garros.
Osaka subsequently pulled retired of the French Open that twelvemonth and revealed she had “suffered agelong bouts of depression” since winning her archetypal large title successful 2018.
Osaka’s astir caller play has been marred by wounded and illness: she withdrew from the Melbourne Summer Set 1 tourney past January with an abdominal wounded and pulled retired of Tokyo’s Pan Pacific Open successful September owed to illness.
She besides missed the full writer tribunal play owed to an Achilles wounded and withdrew from her opening lucifer of the Canadian Open with a backmost injury.
Osaka joins a database of notable absentees from the Australian Open, which begins connected January 16.
Men’s satellite No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz is retired with a limb injury, helium said connected Friday. The tourney would person been the 19-year-old’s archetypal expansive slam since winning the 2022 US Open successful September and becoming the youngest satellite No. 1 successful the past of men’s tennis.
Wild paper Venus Williams has besides withdrawn from the women’s singles owed to an injury, tourney organizers announced connected Twitter Saturday.
Meanwhile, determination are question marks implicit the fittingness of Britain’s Emma Raducanu and women’s satellite No. 1 Iga Swiatek aft she withdrew from the Adelaide International 2 tourney connected Saturday owed to a close enarthrosis injury.
Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska volition determination into the main gully successful Osaka’s place, organizers said.
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