The organizers announced, one week before the start of the competition, the Package of the Japanese player, a double winner of the competition. But no reason has been advanced.
MO12345lemonde with AFP
New blow for the Australian Tennis Open which is to start in just a week. After the package in the male table of the world number 1, the Spaniard Carlos Alvaraz – injured the leg -, the first major of the season loses the Japanese star Naomi Osaka.
“Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Australian Open. She will miss the AO2023”, said the tournament on Twitter . No reason for the withdrawal of the old world number 1 has been put forward.
The American Venus Williams, who injured last week at the WTA tournament in Auckland, will not be in the game either.
Champion in Melbourne in 2019 and 2021, Osaka did not compete for any meeting in the context of a competition since its package during a Tournament in Tokyo in September for abdominal pain and tumbled in 42
a very difficult 2022 year
The quadruple winning tournament winner previously mentioned its mental health problems and spent all year 2022 outside the top 10, undergoing defeats in the first round in Roland-Garros and the US Open. She declared forfeit for Wimbledon due to an injury to the Achilles tendon.
Speaking during the Pan Pacific Open in September, the 25 -year -old player admitted to having crossed “more than high” in 2022. “This year was not the best for me, but I learned a lot about myself, “she said.
According to reports published last week in Australia, Tennis Australia was unable to know where she was. Her accounts on social networks indicated that she has traveled in Europe with her boyfriend, the American rapper Cordae.