PERTH, Australia — 4-time Grand Slam singles champion Naomi Osaka is feeling beneath the climate on the United Cup.
After dropping her first match for Japan towards Greece’s Maria Sakkari on Friday, Osaka mentioned she obtained “actually sick” over the vacation interval and wasn’t working at 100% throughout the 6-4, 6-2 loss.
Osaka was coughing at instances throughout the match and appeared to lack vitality. She mentioned she seemingly caught an sickness from her 2-year-old daughter Shai.
“I’ve been coping with some well being stuff, so I am type of simply completely happy to be out right here proper now,” Osaka mentioned. “It isn’t severe, however I am not working on the p.c that I need to be working at, which type of sucks, as a result of I had a extremely good offseason so I assumed I used to be going to do very well right here.”
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Osaka, who superior to the US Open semifinals final yr, mentioned she thinks she is sort of completed with the sickness.
“I am on the tail finish of that however nonetheless not superb,” she mentioned. “I am simply attempting to get higher on daily basis. 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 towards Shintaro Mochizuki.
