Naomi Osaka’s woes deepened when the struggling former world primary pulled out of Japan Open in Tokyo complaining of belly ache on Thursday.
The 24-year-old Japanese was set to play Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia within the second spherical later within the day however withdrew saying her “body won’t let” her compete.
Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam winner, was seeking to finish a poor run of kind in Tokyo, the place she is the defending champion from the final time the event was performed in 2019.
She has plummeted to 48 within the ladies’s world rankings after a wretched run that noticed her crash out within the first spherical of her earlier three tournaments.
Osaka’s first-round match in Tokyo in opposition to Australia’s Daria Saville lasted simply seven minutes earlier than her opponent collapsed with an injured knee.
Saville retired from the match and was later discovered to have torn her anterior cruciate ligament.
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