Naomi Osaka ’s return to Grand Slam competition ended prematurely on Friday, as the two-time Australian Open champion was forced to retire from her third-round match against Belinda Bencic due to a strained abdominal muscle. Osaka had dropped the opening set in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (3), before informing the chair umpire she could no longer continue.

The Spaniard, who defeated her Ukrainian rival in the 3rd round of Melbourne, spoke about the moment in which she (maybe) railed against her boyfriend

In her last Grand Slam quarterfinal, the Spaniard fell apart in New York. She took the lessons to Gauff in Melbourne, and won.

Naomi Osaka is out of the Australian Open after she was forced to retire injured from her third-round match against Belinda Bencic.

A place in the second week of the Australian Open is on the line Friday in Melbourne (Thursday night, U.S.) for a number of star players including Naomi Osaka, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff.

Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev, Coco Gauff, and Aryna Sabalenka all advanced, while two-time champion Naomi Osaka retired ... on to face 11th seed Paula Badosa, with both women ...

Later Friday, an apparent abdominal injury that forced Naomi Osaka to retire with a ... Also advancing Friday were 11th-seeded Paula Badosa, who beat Marta Kostyuk 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, and 18th-seeded ...

It wasn't the ending that Naomi Osaka — nor her multitudes of ... Vondrousova’s quarterfinal opponent will be Paula Badosa of Spain. In other men’s matches, eighth-seeded Diego Schwartzman ...

Two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus owns the longest Australian Open women's singles winning streak in more than a decade after advancing out of the third round on Friday in Melbourne. Sabalenka got past Denmark's Clara Tauson 7-6 (5), 6-4 in 2 hours, 6 minutes.

Madison Keys may have won the title at the 2025 Australian Open but there were a myriad of players leaving Melbourne who can leave with their heads held high.

Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff and Jasmine Paolini lead the Qatar TotalEnergies Open Duty Free Tennis Championships entry lists, but Australian Open champion Madison Keys has withdrawn from Doha due to injury.

After the first Grand Slam of the season, the rankings got a major shakeup with Madison Keys returning to the Top 10, Paula Badosa and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova climbing even higher and Belinda Bencic jumping over 100 spots in a week full of big moves.