4-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka will make her comeback to tennis on the Brisbane Worldwide warm-up event forward of the Australian Open.
Match officers on Friday confirmed Osaka will contest the December 31-January 7 occasion to start out her 2024 season.
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A two-time Australian and U.S. Open winner, Osaka was a shock withdrawal from final 12 months’s Australian Open earlier than later revealing she was pregnant.
The previous tennis No. 1 introduced the start of her daughter Shai in July.
“I’m actually enthusiastic about getting again out on courtroom and competing. I all the time love beginning my season in Brisbane and might’t wait to return,” Osaka mentioned in an announcement. It “will set me up for a superb comeback this summer time.”
In a later social media put up Osaka shared a hyperlink to the event announcement.
Osaka was born in Japan and moved to the US together with her mother and father when she was 3. She hasn’t competed on tour since an occasion in Tokyo in September 2022, shortly after she misplaced within the first spherical of the U.S. Open.
Australian Open officers introduced final month that Osaka could be within the subject for the 12 months’s first main beginning January 14.