{"id":49281,"date":"2026-06-27T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/naomi-osaka-withholds-from-bad-homburg-final-due-to-leg-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:59:34","slug":"naomi-osaka-withholds-from-bad-homburg-final-due-to-leg-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/naomi-osaka-withholds-from-bad-homburg-final-due-to-leg-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka withholds from Bad Homburg final due to leg injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>BAD HOMBURG, Germany &#8212; Naomi Osaka&#8217;s Wimbledon preparations suffered a setback when she withdrew from Saturday&#8217;s Bad Homburg final at the start of the second set with a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth-seeded Japanese player withdrew from her first grass-court final after trailing Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic) 6-1, 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Osaka took a medical timeout in the first set. After gesturing that she could not continue, she walked over to shake Muchova and the referee&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to thank everyone who came to watch the game,&#8221; Osaka told the crowd at the trophy ceremony. \u201cI apologize for not being able to talk until the end, but the atmosphere throughout the week has been incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Osaka, 28, a four-time Grand Slam champion, has never made it past the third round at Wimbledon, which begins on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 14th seed will face Elsa Jacquemo in the first round.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAD HOMBURG, Germany &#8212; Naomi Osaka&#8217;s Wimbledon preparations suffered a setback when she withdrew from Saturday&#8217;s Bad Homburg final at the start of the second set with a foot injury. The fourth-seeded Japanese player withdrew from her first grass-court final after trailing Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic) 6-1, 1-0. Osaka took a medical timeout in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2817,394,63,2818,331,1087,2718,2719,24,9402],"class_list":["post-49281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-bad","tag-due","tag-final","tag-homburg","tag-injury","tag-leg","tag-naomi","tag-osaka","tag-tennis","tag-withholds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}