{"id":219503,"date":"2025-10-17T05:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219503\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:50:07","slug":"naomi-osaka-out-of-japan-open-quarterfinals-with-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/219503\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka out of Japan Open quarterfinals with leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSAKA, Japan — Naomi Osaka<\/a> pulled out of her quarterfinal match at the Japan Open on Friday because of a left leg injury.<\/p>\n

Her withdrawal ahead of the match resulted in Jaqueline Cristian<\/a> advancing to the semifinals on a walkover, the WTA Tour said.<\/p>\n

Tournament organizers said top-seeded Osaka hadn’t recovered from the injury suffered late in her second-round match. It will be Cristian’s third semifinal appearance of the year and her first on a surface other than clay.<\/p>\n

Before the injury, Osaka had wins over Wakana Sonobe<\/a> and 2024 champion Suzan Lamens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After splitting the first two sets with Lamens, Osaka took a 5-0 lead in the third. But during a rally with Lamens, Osaka pulled up with an apparent issue with her left leg. She won the point after Lamens sent a backhand wide but requested a medical timeout after the next point.<\/p>\n

Osaka, a four-time major winner, returned to the court with her left thigh wrapped and limitations in her movement but was able to close out on her third match point.<\/p>\n

Osaka lost in the second round of the China Open in late September and also lost in the second round at the Wuhan Open last week.<\/p>\n

In another quarterfinal Friday at the Japan Open, 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez<\/a> beat Rebecca \u0160ramkov\u00e1<\/a> 7-6 (2), 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSAKA, Japan — Naomi Osaka pulled out of her quarterfinal match at the Japan Open on Friday because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-219503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}