By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 21, 2024
Naomi Osaka’s comeback season has come to an early conclusion. The four-time Grand Slam champion introduced that she’s ending her season early as a result of again damage that pressured her to retire from her match in opposition to Coco Gauff on the China Open in Beijing.
“I believed I strained my again, however I did an MRI in Beijing,” Osaka advised reporters in Tokyo, based on the Kyodo Information Company. “They mentioned I bulged a disc in my again and I additionally ruptured stomach muscle groups. I used to be working towards in Los Angeles with a purpose to play right here. I took one other MRI and it mentioned I nonetheless have tears.
“I’ve performed so many tournaments this 12 months, so it was the hardest resolution to not play this and never play BJK.”
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“I’m actually sorry that I’ve needed to withdraw from competing on the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open and the remainder of this tennis season,” she wrote, based on a press release from Hong Kong Tennis Open, the place she pulled out.
Osaka finishes her first season as a mother at 22-17. She is at the moment ranked 56 – up from 831 at this 12 months’s Australian Open, the place she returned to the tour after a 15-month hiatus and the beginning of her baby, daughter Shai, on July 4, 2023.
The HKCTA is dissatisfied to announce that Naomi Osaka has been pressured to withdraw from competing on the Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open 2024 as a consequence of damage, in an unlucky finish to her tennis season in 2024.
Nevertheless, Naomi has confirmed she is going to nonetheless be attending the… pic.twitter.com/twctM9BJVS
— HongKong Tennis Open (@HKTennisOpen) October 21, 2024
It has been a turbulent season for Osaka, who parted methods with coach Wim Fissette in September and employed Patrick Mouratoglou, the previous coach of Serena Williams, later within the month.
She injured her again within the first occasion she performed with Mouratoglou in her field, after successful three consecutive matches to achieve the spherical of 16.
