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News January 13, 2025

Jimmy Connors blasts Naomi Osaka over early damage, Auckland ultimate retirement

Jimmy Connors blasts Naomi Osaka over early damage, Auckland ultimate retirement
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Jimmy Connors known as out Naomi Osaka on the most recent episode of his podcast as the previous eight-time Grand Slam champion instructed that the Japanese ought to have bodily ready higher for the beginning of 2025.

Within the first week of the brand new season, the 27-year-old received her opening 4 matches in Auckland to achieve the ultimate – wherein she needed to retire. 

Moments after sealing the primary set over Clara Tauson, Osaka requested for a coach – and after getting her stomach checked – she determined to name it a day. 

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For the four-time Grand Slam winner, it was a brutal option to end her promising Auckland run, particularly realizing that she hoped to win her first title as a mother. 

Connors on Osaka: Onerous for me to know the way you get damage proper at the start 

“It’s the first tournament of the year, come on. It’s not like you played six weeks in a row. I mean, it’s the first tournament of the year and you’re really just breaking in and getting the feel and how your game is and competing and trying to figure out all the work that you’ve done and everything you’ve added over the two or three-day off-season,” the American tennis legend mentioned on the Benefit Connors podcast. 

“I mean, to get hurt right at the beginning and to pull out, that’s hard for me to understand because I’ve got amnesia with a lot of things that happened in my time with me and stuff.”

After making his level clear, Connors additionally acknowledged that he at all times made certain to be “ready mentally and physically” firstly of the yr. 

In the meantime, Osaka confirmed in her pre-tournament Australian Open presser that the MRI “was not fantastic” but in addition famous that it wasn’t the worst-case situation.

Most significantly, she needs to be able to play towards Caroline Garcia in Melbourne.

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