MELBOURNE: Twice Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka has pulled out of the Grand Slam ahead of her scheduled third round match on Saturday, citing a fitness problem. Her opponent, Australian Maddison Inglis, has a walkover into the fourth round. Japanese 16th seed Osaka, the 2019 and 2021 winner at Melbourne Park, said on social media that her body needed attention following her previous match against Sorana Cirstea, without elaborating on the issue. “I’ve had to make the difficult decision to withdraw to address something my body needs attention for after my last match,” she wrote.

Kurz vor ihrem Match in der dritten Runde meldet sich Naomi Osaka und gibt ihren Rückzug von den Australian Open bekannt. Anderen macht die Hitze in Melbourne arg zu schaffen –…

Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Australian Open before her scheduled third-round match against the Australian qualifier Maddison Inglis