The Japanese Naomi Osakawho is playing in the women’s circuit final for the first time since Miami in 2022, withdrew due to injury from the match against the Dane. Clara Tauson who won the Auckland tournament title, despite losing in the first round scored by a Japanese woman.
After winning the set 6-4, Osaka, seeded number 7, who has not reached a semifinal or final since returning to tennis after her maternity leave twelve months ago, sought medical attention. After being helped by the court doctor, Osaka, who had a stomach ailment, decided to retire and hand the title to Tauson, whom she had never played.
Naomi Osaka He is one win away from his first title since winning his fourth Grand Slam in Australia, in 2021. The closeness of the start of the course’s first major, in Melbourne, has led to the Japanese abandoning the Auckland. He doesn’t want to take risks.
Taison, a former junior number one, is the first Dane to win in Auckland. The player from Copenhagen thus achieved the third title of his career, the first since he won in Lyon and Luxembourg in 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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