Osaka pulls out of Pan Pacific Open with stomach pain

Naomi Osaka

Naomi Osaka's woes deepened when the struggling former World No.1 pulled out of her home Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo complaining of abdominal pain on Thursday.

The Japanese, 24, was set to play Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia in the second round later in the day but withdrew saying her "body won't let" her compete.

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