Naomi Osaka Announces She Is Pregnant and Won’t Play in 2023

The tennis participant Naomi Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam winner, introduced on Wednesday that she is pregnant.

She posted {a photograph} of an ultrasound on Instagram, and added, “One thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom,’ haha.”

She stated in the publish that she can be on the 2024 Australian Open.

Three days in the past, Osaka, 25, dropped out of this yr’s Australian Open, which begins Monday. She has not performed a event since September. Because of the missed time, she is at the moment ranked No. 47 in the world.

Osaka received the Australian Open in 2019 and 2021. She additionally received the U.S. Open in 2018 and 2020. She has been concerned in a relationship with the rapper Cordae since 2019.

Serena Williams received the 2017 Australian Open whereas she was roughly two months pregnant. Osaka didn’t reveal how far alongside she was in the Instagram publish.

Osaka withdrew from the 2021 French Open after declining to attend information conferences, saying that she discovered them detrimental to her psychological well being, and she revealed that she had struggled with despair. She took a break from the sport and additionally missed time with an Achilles’ tendon harm final yr.

Though she has lived in the United States since she was a toddler, Osaka, whose dad and mom are Haitian American and Japanese, represents Japan and was given the respect of lighting the cauldron to start the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

Because of quite a few endorsement offers, Osaka is without doubt one of the high 20 incomes athletes in the world and the highest-paid lady, Forbes has reported.

Her enterprise portfolio features a skincare merchandise firm targeted on individuals with darker pores and skin tones, and she has written a youngsters’s e book. Last yr, Osaka and her longtime agent, Stuart Duguid, left IMG, the sports activities and leisure conglomerate, to start Evolve, which manages Osaka’s enterprise pursuits in addition to different purchasers.