Naomi Osaka announced on Wednesday that she is pregnant and will be taking a break from tennis until 2024.
“One thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom’,” the former world number one wrote on Twitter, adding that she intended to return for the Australian Open in 2024.
Naomi Osaka has not played a tennis match since September and her withdrawal from next week’s Australian Open had raised concerns that the former world number one may never appear on court again.
Osaka’s social media accounts had stayed silent since Tennis Australia tweeted on Sunday that the two-time Melbourne champion would miss the first Grand Slam of the year, giving no reason for her absence
