Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka, who withdrew from the Australian Open earlier this week, has announced she is pregnant.
The 25 year-old Japanese former world number one has not played since September having won the last of her four Grand Slams at the Australian Open in 2021.
In May 2021, after pulling out of the French Open, she revealed she had suffered long bouts of depression ever since winning her first major title, the US Open, in 2018.
In September 2021 she took a five-month break from the sport.
She lost in the third round of the Australian Open on her return, then the first round of the French Open, missed Wimbledon because of injury and lost in the opening round of the US Open.
Osaka played last at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in September and has dropped to 47 in the world rankings.