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Africa-Press – Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>Naomi Osaka Says She\u2019ll Return To Tennis After Having Her First Child Japanese professional tennis player, Naomi Osaka, has vowed to return to the tennis tour after the birth of her first child.<\/p>\n

The four-time Grand Slam winner announced she is pregnant in January and is therefore missing the 2023 season, Daily Mail reports. In her social media post, she said she\u2019d be back for the Australian Open in 2024 and now she\u2019s reaffirmed her intentions to make a comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely plan to come back… it\u2019s kind of like a break a little bit, but also I feel very competitive still,\u201d she told WBS in Japan on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Osaka claimed her first Grand Slam at the US Open in 2018, before winning the showpiece Down Under a year later. In 2020 she returned to Flushing Meadows to triumph again and then won her fourth Grand Slam in Melbourne two years ago.<\/p>\n

On her return, the 25-year-old declared in the interview in her country of birth: \u2018I really want to win more slams.\u2019 Osaka pulled out of this year\u2019s Australian Open without an official reason but then revealed she is expecting her first child with the rapper Cordae days later.<\/p>\n

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