{"id":30761,"date":"2025-01-17T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/osaka-forced-to-retire-at-australian-open-sabalenka-overcomes-wobbles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T16:15:27","slug":"osaka-forced-to-retire-at-australian-open-sabalenka-overcomes-wobbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/osaka-forced-to-retire-at-australian-open-sabalenka-overcomes-wobbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Osaka forced to retire at Australian Open, Sabalenka overcomes wobbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Reigning champion battles heat and wind to deny Tauson<\/li>\n<li>Andreeva, Vekic, Gauff and Badosa all into round four<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Switzerland\u2019s Belinda Bencic advanced to the last 16 after the two-time champion Naomi Osaka retired during Friday\u2019stheir third-round match with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Bencic took the first set in a tie-break 7-6 (3) before Osaka, who pulled out of the Auckland final this month due to an abdominal injury, withdrew. Osaka led 5-2 in the opening set but showed signs of struggles with her abdomen and called for a physio during a changeover. The 27-year-old initially soldiered on after treatment before retiring.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/17\/australian-open-womens-singles-naomi-osaka-belinda-bencic-aryna-sabalenka-coco-gauff-leylah-fernandez\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning champion battles heat and wind to deny Tauson Andreeva, Vekic, Gauff and Badosa all into round four Switzerland\u2019s Belinda Bencic advanced to the last 16 after the two-time champion Naomi Osaka retired during Friday\u2019stheir third-round match with an injury. Bencic took the first set in a tie-break 7-6 (3) before Osaka, who pulled out &#8230; <a title=\"Osaka forced to retire at Australian Open, Sabalenka overcomes wobbles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/17\/osaka-forced-to-retire-at-australian-open-sabalenka-overcomes-wobbles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Osaka forced to retire at Australian Open, Sabalenka overcomes wobbles\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}