Double winner of the Australian Open (2019 and 2021), the Japanese Naomi Osaka (51st) gave up on Friday January 17 in the 3rd round in Melbourne after losing the first set in the tie-break against the Swiss Belinda Bencic (294th). ). This is her second retirement in a few days, after she threw in the towel at the beginning of January in the final of the Auckland tournament against the Dane Clara Tauson (42nd).
Japanese woman suffers from “abdominal injury”
The WTA then indicated that the Japanese was suffering from “abdominal injury”. Returning to the circuit at the start of 2024, after a long break where she gave birth to a daughter, Osaka played a third round of a Grand Slam on Friday for the first time since 2022, already at the Australian Open.
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Bencic, former world 4th gold medalist at the Tokyo Games in 2021, returned to the circuit in October after also giving birth to a daughter. She will face in the round of 16 the winner of the duel between world No. 3 Coco Gauff (3rd) and Canadian Leylah Fernandez (29th), scheduled for 7 p.m. in Melbourne (08 a.m. GMT).
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