Naomi Osaka News

Former world number one Naomi Osaka announced on Wednesday that she is pregnant and will be taking a break from tennis until 2024

Naomi Osaka announced on Wednesday that she is pregnant and will be taking a break from tennis until 2024

The champion in Melbourne in 2019 and 2021, Osaka has not played a competitive match since pulling out of a tournament in Tokyo in September with abdominal pain and has slumped to 42 in the world rankings.

India's badminton star PV Sindhu is the only player in the top 25 in Forbes' annual list of the highest-paid female athletes in the world

Football fans around the world witnessed a jaw-dropping match in the FIFA World Cup 2022, where Japan visibly thrashed Germany 2-1, to register a win in their opening Group E clash.

Naomi Osaka's woes deepened when the struggling former world number one pulled out of her home Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo complaining of abdominal pain on Thursday.

US Open 2022: Naomi Osaka crashed out in the first round of the US Open women's singlesafter losing to USA's Danielle Collins in straight sets.

Japan's Naomi Osaka lost 4-6, 5-7 to Zhang Shuai of China at the Cincinnati Masters 2022.

Naomi Osaka retired from her opening match at the WTA Toronto Masters with lower back pain, raising injury concerns with the US Open looming.

Osaka was already considering not playing over the ATP and WTA tours decision to strip Wimbledon of ranking points after the All England Club banned Russian and Belarusian players in response to the invasion of Ukraine.