After spending more than a year away from tennis due to her pregnancy, Naomi Osaka is finally set to make her comeback in the year 2024 with her best form. The four-time grand slam champion will be first taking part at the Brisbane International tournament in Australia over New Year’s. However, right before her comeback, Osaka opened her heart to her fans.

She wrote down an emotional message for her fans sharing how she felt with all the support she got from them throughout the time she was away from the sport. Even when she was not playing, her fans truly gave her all the love they had for her.

Naomi Osaka thanks her fans for their support on her social media

Recently, Naomi Osaka made a heartfelt post on her official Instagram post talking about the gratitude she felt for her fans. Osaka added, “For everyone that supported me throughout the years. Thank you for believing in me and putting up with me. We’ve shared amazing memories and I have done some things that I wish I would’ve handled differently (lol). Thank you for allowing me to grow up on my own time and showing me a ton of patience. I am extremely grateful. Very honored to be going on chapter 2 of this tennis journey together. I am so excited to see you guys next year.”

Along with the beautiful post, she also posted a video of herself as a kid where she can be seen eating and smiling for the camera with all her innocence. Besides her overwhelming feelings of making a comeback are taking over Osaka, going through pregnancy and becoming a mother was not easy either. She recently did an interview where she talked about how becoming a mother forced her to write a ‘will’.

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Recently turned mother, Naomi Osaka is all set to make her presence once again on the tennis court. This is certainly a new chapter in her life and that is why she made sure to thank everyone who was there for her when she had to step away.

Osaka opens up about the hardships of pregnancy that made her think of writing a will at a point

Naomi Osaka talked to people from InStyle in an interview where she shared that during her pregnancy she was detected to have a bacterial infection which can be passed on to the child as well. On top of that, she learned about Tori Bowie, the Olympic track and field champion, who passed away during her 8th month of pregnancy due to multiple health issues. Osaka couldn’t hide her stress level after knowing this: “I was kind of starting to freak out a little bit.”

While sharing her journey of pregnancy, Osaka also mentioned how she thought of writing her will as well to protect her child in case she failed to make it. However, she dropped the plan of writing her will thinking that having a will might make anything bad more likely to occur.

She said, “I don’t think people know how hard pregnancy is; no one really talks about it as much. Going into it, you kind of think: Oh, it’s this beautiful journey. But it’s kind of rough.” She also added how during labor, she felt that this was the worst pain of her life and if she can surpass this then everything else will be easy going forward.

Naomi Osaka also talked about how when her daughter was, she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck but then in the end, everything worked out and she was blessed with a life-changing baby and a day in her life.

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