Naomi Osaka

Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the 2023 Australian Open, the tournament confirmed via Twitter on Sunday. Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine will be competing in ...

She has not played since Sept. She has amassed a total of four Grand Slams. She candidly spoke about the toll the sport was taking on her mental health, writing on Instagram in May 2021, "I have suffered long bouts of depression … The reason for her withdrawal was not given. Osaka was once the number one ranked women's tennis player in the world, but her ranking has since fallen to 47th. "Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the Australian Open," the tweet read.

Two-time champion Naomi Osaka will not play at the Australian Open, adding her name to a growing list of notable withdrawals.

“But I also know you can’t be certain.” And that is the lesson that will make the records most meaningful. “But the last three Olympics have been in places that have nothing to do with alpine skiing, normally.” [Boy is that right: Sochi, PyeongChang, and Beijing.] “Cortina is a place that I love. “And of course if I’m racing, I’m going to want to be a medal contender, and there’s all that goes along with that.” A mouthful. “In the slalom and giant slalom and the combined, I went out at the fourth gate, the fifth fate, the ninth gate, but I skied those gates exactly how I wanted to ski them. It’s reflexive to diminish deaths of the very old, but loss is loss and Shiffrin was very close to her grandmother. At the end of the 2021 season, Shiffrin won four medals at the World Championships, including a gold in the combined downhill-slalom event. Content that highlighted her status in that moment often noted that she was “back.” She was not back. The arc of Shiffrin’s life and career following that 2019 season is well-known to ski racing fans and even to a broader audience that witnessed her struggles in the 2022 Olympics. She won a remarkable 17 World Cup races in the season that ended on March 17 of 2019, just four days after her 24th birthday. This was particularly true with Shiffrin: She was a prodigy, whispered — and then shouted — about across the breadth of the sport when she was barely in her teens, as the next big — and possibly biggest — thing. It will be said that Shiffrin’s record is the result of sustained brilliance, and that is manifestly true. It will be said that she packed her victories into a shorter period — 12 seasons — than either of the final two racers she passed; Vonn raced 18 seasons and won No.

Naomi Osaka withdrew from the Australian Open on Saturday, just over a week before the tournament begins. Osaka, 25, did not issue a statement saying why.

She [essay for Time magazine](https://www.today.com/news/naomi-osaka-explains-decision-quit-french-open-time-essay-t224812), Osaka said she has a good relationship with the media but finds the news conference format outdated. 42 in the WTA rankings last year. 12 in the world. Athletes are humans.” (Roland Garros stadium is the site of the French Open.) “I would never trivialize mental health or use the term lightly,” Osaka said at the time.

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