Serena Williams Shows Her Support For Naomi Osaka

Following Naomi Osaka‘s choice to withdraw from the French Open on Monday (Could 31), athletes from throughout all sports activities provide their assist to the U.S. Open and Australian Open singles champion.  

Previous to the extremely anticipated French Open, the 23-year-old introduced that she wouldn’t take part in press interviews to protect her psychological well being. Osaka was fined $15,000 on Sunday (Could 30) for not assembly the media interview necessities; the athlete additionally picked up her first win earlier within the day.  

Osaka posted a message on Instagram which defined to her 2.3 million followers her choice to withdraw from the French Open.  

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“The most effective factor for the match, the opposite gamers and my well-being is that I withdraw so that everybody can get again to specializing in the tennis occurring in Paris,” she wrote in an IG submit. “I by no means needed to be a distraction and I settle for that my timing was not ideally suited and my message might have been clearer. Extra importantly, I’d by no means trivialize psychological well being or use the time period flippantly.” 

Serena Williams, 39, got here to her protection and spoke out on the incident on Monday throughout a post-match information convention. 

“I really feel for Naomi. Not everybody is identical. I’m thick. Different persons are skinny. Everyone seems to be totally different and everybody handles issues in another way. You simply must let her deal with it the way in which she needs to and the easiest way she thinks she will,” she mentioned based on the Related Press. “That’s the one factor I can say: I believe she is doing the very best she will.”

Different athletes, together with NBA participant Stephen Curry, former WNBA participant Lisa Leslie and extra, additionally confirmed their assist for Osaka.

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