4-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka has been handed a wild card into the US Open following her return to tennis after a maternity break.
The previous world No 1 resumed competing on the WTA Tour in January after the start of her first baby in July 2023, however the 2018 and 2020 champion in New York has didn’t transcend the quarter-finals at any match this season.
Osaka revealed she had “suffered long bouts of depression” after withdrawing from the French Open in 2021 and opting to not compete at Wimbledon, though she did contest the Tokyo Olympics in her native Japan.
She likened her latest loss in qualifying for the Cincinnati Open to “being postpartum”, including in an emotional publish on Instagram that the sensation “scares” her.
She is about to play at Flushing Meadows – dwell on Sky Sports activities from August 26 to September 8.
Bianca Andreescu, who received her first Grand Slam title on the 2019 US Open, in addition to resurgent Amanda Anisimova, had been among the many gamers who acquired principal draw wild playing cards.
Dominic Thiem will retire on the finish of the season
Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka, 2020 US Open champion Dominic Thiem and People Chris Eubanks, Zachary Svajda, Learner Tien and Matthew Forbes acquired singles principal draw wild playing cards into the boys’s draw.
Thiem, 30, introduced that he’ll retire on the finish of the season after combating a persistent wrist harm for the higher a part of the final three years.
The Austrian has been ranked as excessive as No 3 and is at present ranked No 211.
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