PERTH, Australia — 4-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka is feeling underneath the climate on the United Cup.
After shedding her first match for Japan in opposition to Greece’s Maria Sakkari on Friday, Osaka mentioned she bought “actually sick” over the Christmas vacation interval and wasn’t working at 100 per cent through the 6-4, 6-2 loss.
Osaka was coughing at occasions through the match and appeared to lack vitality. She mentioned she seemingly caught an sickness from her two-year-old daughter Shai.
“I’ve been coping with some well being stuff, so I’m form of simply comfortable to be out right here proper now,” Osaka mentioned. “It’s not severe however I’m not working on the per cent that I wish to be working at, which form of sucks, as a result of I had a extremely good low season so I assumed I used to be going to do rather well right here.”
Osaka, who superior to the US Open semifinals final yr, mentioned she thinks she’s almost completed with the sickness.
“I’m on the tail finish of that however nonetheless not wonderful,” she mentioned. “I’m simply making an attempt to get higher each day. I had a cough, a runny nostril, like all that nasty stuff, so hopefully it goes away earlier than the Australian Open.”
The primary Grand Slam occasion of the yr begins in Melbourne on Jan. 18.
Stefanos Tsitsipas wrapped up victory within the match for Greece over Japan with a 6-3, 6-4 win in opposition to Shintaro Mochizuki.
