{"id":15287,"date":"2026-01-24T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:46:18","slug":"australian-open-2026-naomi-osaka-withdraws-from-grand-slam-tournament-through-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15287","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: Naomi Osaka withdraws from Grand Slam tournament through injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Two-time champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from her Australian Open third-round match shortly before she was due to take the court against home qualifier Maddison Inglis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Japan&#8217;s Osaka, 28, has cited a left abdominal injury for pulling out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement came about two hours before the pair were expected to take to Rod Laver Arena in Saturday&#8217;s night session. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve had to make the difficult decision to withdraw to address something my body needs attention for after my last match,&#8221; Osaka, who was seeded 16th, wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was so excited to keep going and this run meant the most to me, so having to stop here breaks my heart but I can&#8217;t risk doing any further damage so I can get back on the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inglis, 28, is ranked 168th in the world and moves into the fourth round of a Grand Slam for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having been overlooked by Tennis Australia for a wildcard, she came through three qualifying rounds and will now face either Polish second seed Iga Swiatek or Russian 31st seed Anna Kalinskaya for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Australian #Open #Naomi #Osaka #withdraws #Grand #Slam #tournament #injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time champion Naomi Osaka &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}