Naomi Osaka has already somewhat stepped away from tennis as it hasn't been her first priority for quite a while.
Ben Rothenberg authored a Naomi Osaka biography that will be coming out later this year and in an interview with Australian media, he confirmed that Osaka might be done with tennis for the moment. She withdrew from the Australian Open and it's unknown when she'll come back to the sport if at all.
I don’t think she would use the word ‘retiring’, but if she was stepping away from the sport for a while - and it could be for any length of time - I don’t know that she would want to speak that out loud.
While maintaining an ambitious personality, Osaka shifted focus away from tennis focusing mostly on various types of the business ventures including her own agency that recently added Ons Jabeur to their roster that already featured Nick Kyrgios. Rothenberg feels like there isn't enough motivation for Osaka to focus on tennis.
For her, the math is not adding up right now, for her to want to make the commitment. She knows how much work it is and how all-encompassing and preoccupying it is to be an active full-time player with the standards that she has. She’s won so much already, she’s not going to be content just to be a top-20 player again.
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