Tennis player Naomi Osaka will miss the Australian Open, one of the four major tournaments starting this month.
Osaka had entered the Australian Open, which will start on the 16th of this month in Melbourne, Australia, but the organizers of the tournament announced on the official Twitter on the 8th that Osaka would not participate.
No reason was given.
Osaka, a former world number one, injured her left ankle at a tour event in May last season, and was eliminated in the first round of the French Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments. , and the following US Open was also defeated in the first match.
In September, he withdrew from the second round of a tour event in Tokyo due to a stomach ache, and has been away from tour events since.
Osaka, who is currently ranked 42nd in the world, has won the Australian Open twice in 2019 and the year before that, and her trends have been attracting attention.