Naomi Osaka goes to be a mother! On Jan. 11, the tennis star introduced on Instagram that she’s pregnant along with her first baby. “Can’t wait to get again on the courtroom however this is a bit life replace for 2023,” she captioned a photograph of her sonogram.
“I do know that I’ve a lot to sit up for sooner or later.”
Osaka’s announcement comes one week after the athlete determined to withdraw from the 2023 Australian Open. “The previous few years have been attention-grabbing to say the least, however I discover that it is the most difficult occasions in life that could be probably the most enjoyable,” she stated. “These few months away from sport has actually given me a brand new love and appreciation for the sport I’ve devoted my life to. I notice that life is so quick and I do not take any moments with no consideration. [Every day] is a brand new blessing and journey.”
The mom-to-be added that she appears to be like ahead to the day when she will share her love for tennis along with her baby. “I do know that I’ve a lot to sit up for sooner or later, one factor I’m wanting ahead to is for my child to look at considered one of my matches and inform somebody ‘that is my mother’, haha,” she stated, including that she appears to be like ahead to getting again on the courtroom subsequent 12 months. “2023 will probably be a 12 months that’ll be stuffed with classes for me and I hope I’ll see you guys within the begin of the subsequent one trigger I’ll be at Aus 2024. Love you all infinitely.” On the subsequent slide, Osaka shared the identical message in Japanese.
In the feedback part, movie star buddies shared their congratulations, together with Halle Bailey, Marsai Martin, Ella Mae, and extra.
Osaka — who launched her youngsters’s ebook, “The Way Champs Play,” in December — added, “Sidenote: I do not assume there is a completely appropriate path to soak up life however I at all times felt that in case you transfer ahead with good intentions you may discover your means finally.”
As of 2019, Osaka has been courting Cordae. Since asserting their relationship, the couple have saved their love life comparatively non-public. In September 2021, they had been noticed collectively on the crimson carpet on the Met Gala. A couple of months later, in January 2022, Osaka congratulated Cordae on the discharge of his sophomore album, “From a Birds Eye View.”