Naomi Osaka ’s return to Grand Slam competition ended prematurely on Friday, as the two-time Australian Open champion was forced to retire from her third-round match against Belinda Bencic due to a strained abdominal muscle. Osaka had dropped the opening set in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (3), before informing the chair umpire she could no longer continue.

The Spaniard, who defeated her Ukrainian rival in the 3rd round of Melbourne, spoke about the moment in which she (maybe) railed against her boyfriend

In her last Grand Slam quarterfinal, the Spaniard fell apart in New York. She took the lessons to Gauff in Melbourne, and won.

Naomi Osaka has opened up about facing fellow mother Belinda Bencic in the third round of the 2025 Australian Open.

Naomi Osaka is out of the Australian Open after she was forced to retire injured from her third-round match against Belinda Bencic.

A four-time Grand Slam champion, Osaka returned from maternity leave last year and lost in the first or second round of all four major tournaments. The 27-year-old Japan native has not won any event on the WTA Tour since capturing her second Australian Open title to start 2021.

A place in the second week of the Australian Open is on the line Friday in Melbourne (Thursday night, U.S.) for a number of star players including Naomi Osaka, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.

Two-time defending Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka extended a few impressive streaks on Friday while becoming one of the first players to advance to the fourth round of the year's opening Grand Slam tournament.

Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus owns the longest Australian Open women's singles winning streak in more than a decade after advancing out of the third round on Friday in Melbourne. Sabalenka got past Denmark's Clara Tauson 7-6 (5), 6-4 in 2 hours, 6 minutes.

It wasn't the ending that Naomi Osaka — nor her multitudes of ... Vondrousova’s quarterfinal opponent will be Paula Badosa of Spain. In other men’s matches, eighth-seeded Diego Schwartzman ...

Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, Coco Gauff, and Aryna Sabalenka all advanced, while two-time champion Naomi Osaka retired ... on to face 11th seed Paula Badosa, with both women ...

Pegula, the seventh seed, has a number of difficult opponents in her quarter: Coco Gauff, Karolina Muchova, Paula Badosa ... step on an Osaka revenge tour? In her first match, Naomi beat Carolina ...