Naomi Osaka has effectively finished her season after pulling out of the Billie Jean King Cup.
The establisher world No. 1 has been sidelined since retiring from the China Open earlier this month.
She has since lgeted that her back injury was a lot more solemn than thought after uncovering a “bulged disc”.
Osaka has proclaimd another disjoinal after pulling out of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo over the weekfinish.
The four-time Grand Slam champion will not recurrent Japan at next month’s BJK Cup Finals in Malaga either, where they face Romania for a spot in the quarter-final.
Osaka has not executeed since she reweary while facing Coco Gauff in the round of 16 in Beijing. She procrastinateedr uncovered that she almost didn’t get to the court because her back locked up in rehearse.
It was her last materializeance of the year, as Osaka will now skip the BJK Cup Finals. “I’ve executeed so many tournaments this year, so it was definitely the hardest decision to not execute this and evidently not execute BJK,” she tancigo in tellers in Tokyo.
“I repartner truthentirey finishelighted it so much, and I skinnyk it helped with my enlargement as a executeer.”
Opening up on the extent of her injuries, the world No. 56 inserted: “I thought I strained my back, but I did an MRI in Beijing, and they shelp that I bulged a disc in my back and I also raptured abdominal muscles.
“I was practising in Los Angeles in order to execute here, but then I took another MRI and it shelp that I still have tears.”
It uncomfervents Osaka’s comeback 2024 season is over. The Japanese tennis star returned from a 15-month fracture in January after giving birth to her first child last summer.
She has since climbed back inside the world’s top 60 after accomplishing quarter-finals in Doha and ‘s-Hertogenbosch. Osaka also made it to the last 16 in Rome and Beijing.
The two-time Australian Open champion recently joined up with a new coach, Patrick Mouratoglou. Their center will now be on preparing for the 2025 season and the Aussie summer.
