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Naomi Osaka is getting the band back ahead of her comeback to tennis as the former world No 1 has rehired performance coach Florian Zitzelsberger. Osaka, 26, hasn’t played since 2022 September, when she competed at a WTA 500 tournament in Tokyo.
This season, Osaka missed all of the action due to pregnancy. Osaka, who announced the birth of her child in July, recently brought back coach WIm Fisette to her team. After Fisette, Osaka also contacted performance coach Zitzelsberger and the two agreed to work together again.
Osaka’s goal is to return at the start of the 2024 season in Australia. “It’s an interesting journey for me because the work we started was not quite finished. Now we have the chance. Naomi is a pure talent, quite unbelievable.
But still, I see a lot of athletic potential that we can work on. First and foremost, she has to stay healthy, but on the other side, there is so much potential to nurture, strengthen and conquer,” Zitzelsberger told WTA Insider.
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