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Naomi Osaka won’t play at Wimbledon, citing Achilles tendon
Japan's Naomi Osaka celebrates after defeating Romania's Patricia Maria Tig during a first-round match of the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros stadium in Paris, May 30, 2021. Naomi Osaka pulled out of Wimbledon on Saturday June 18, 2022, citing a lingering problem with her left Achilles tendon, marking the second consecutive year she's decided to sit out the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
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June 18, 2022

Naomi Osaka won’t play at Wimbledon, citing Achilles tendon

Naomi Osaka pulled out of Wimbledon on Saturday, citing a lingering problem with her left Achilles tendon and marking the second consecutive year she’s decided to sit out the grass-court Grand Slam tournament.

The four-time major champion and former No. 1-ranked player posted a photo of herself on a grass court and wrote on Twitter: “my Achilles still isn’t right so I’ll see you next time.”

Osaka has not played an official match since losing in the first round of the French Open to Amanda Anisimova 7-5, 6-4 on May 24. During that match, for which she said she took a painkiller, Osaka tried to stretch her tendon by tugging on the toe of her shoe at changeovers and squatting to flex her lower leg between points.

After that defeat, Osaka said she was leaning toward missing Wimbledon because the professional tennis tours aren’t ranking points awarded — a response to the All England Club’s decision to bar all players from Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine.

“I’m not sure why, but I feel like if I play Wimbledon without points, it’s more like an exhibition. I know this isn’t true, right? But my brain just like feels that way. Whenever I think something is like an exhibition, I just can’t go at it 100 percent,” Osaka said then. “I didn’t even make my decision yet, but I’m leaning more towards not playing, given the current circumstances.”

Osaka did not play at Wimbledon a year ago as part of a mental health break she took after pulling out of the French Open before her second-round match.

She has not won a match at the All England Club since getting to the third round in 2018. Osaka lost in the first round of Wimbledon in 2019, and the tournament was cancelled in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

All four of Osaka’s Grand Slam titles came on hard courts: at the US Open in 2018 and 2020 and at the Australian Open in 2019 and 2021.

The 24-year-old Osaka has played only 17 matches this season and her ranking fell to No. 43 this week.

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