Australian Open 2025: Naomi Osaka Confident of Playing First-Round Match Despite Abdominal Injury
The 27-year-old has taken confidence from her performance in the WTA event in Auckland and has moved on mentally from the immediate devastation she felt upon retiring from the final there. That feeling was exacerbated by her campaign last year, spent largely rebuilding following a long stint of maternity leave.
Mumbai, January 10: Two-time Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka is confident of playing the first-round match in the season opener Grand Slam despite the scan result of an abdominal injury not being "fantastic." The four-time Grand Slam champion reached the final of the ASB Classic in preparation for the first major of the season, but had to retire and undergo an MRI scan. While she didn't provide specifics about the scan results on Friday, Osaka expressed that she is ready for her first-round match against Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia. ASB Classic 2025: Naomi Osaka Reaches First WTA Semifinal Since 2022 Following Victory Over Hailey Baptiste.
"I슬롯사이트m normally a really honest person but I probably won슬롯사이트t answer your question honestly,슬롯사이트 Osaka told reporters on Friday. "The MRI, it wasn슬롯사이트t fantastic, but it wasn슬롯사이트t bad at the same time. I슬롯사이트m pretty optimistic about playing my match, I mean for sure I슬롯사이트m going to play my match, and I슬롯사이트ve been practising pretty well for the two days that I슬롯사이트ve been here."
The 27-year-old has taken confidence from her performance in the WTA event in Auckland and has moved on mentally from the immediate devastation she felt upon retiring from the final there.
슬롯사이트It just sucked because I felt like my body wasn슬롯사이트t keeping up with what my mind wanted it to do, and obviously I was very concerned about my chances playing here, so I felt like the best decision was to pull out, even though I really didn슬롯사이트t want to,슬롯사이트 Osaka said. Australia Open 2025: Injury Scare for Naomi Osaka Ahead of Grand Slam Event.
That feeling was exacerbated by her campaign last year, spent largely rebuilding following a long stint of maternity leave.
슬롯사이트At that moment it was an accumulation of losing in first rounds in 2024 and wanting and hoping to get to a final, and then obviously when I did, I couldn슬롯사이트t play anymore. I슬롯사이트m strangely over it now. Like, 30 minutes after that happened, I was over it because I felt like I슬롯사이트m playing really well, and I can only keep continuing, and hopefully I슬롯사이트ll get to another final.슬롯사이트슬롯 머신 사이트 추천 she said.
Osaka split with long-time coach Wim Fissette in September and reunited with Patrick Mouratoglou.
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