Naomi Osaka is back.
After more than 15 months away from competition—which started with many thinking she was drifting away from the sport and ended with her becoming a first-time mother—Osaka has returned to the court. She made her official return at the start of 2024 in the Brisbane International, where she downed Tamara Korpatsch in the first round but lost in a hard-fought thriller to former world No. 1 Karolina Pliskova in the second round.
And this Sunday, Osaka will compete in the Australian Open, home to two of her four Grand Slam titles, facing No. 16 seed Caroline Garcia in the first round. Aptly timed with her return to a Slam for the first time since 2022, the first biography on the super star tennis player, Naomi Osaka: Her Journey to Finding Her Power and Her Voice, hit shelves on Jan. 9.
