On Saturday night at the BNP Paribas Open, Naomi Osaka had just lost the first point during her tennis match against Veronica Kudermetova.
As it got quiet, one spectator shouted out, “Naomi, you suck.”
The number one male tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic has decided to not attend the Fall 2021 BNP Paribas Open. “I am sorry I won’t get to see my fans in Indian Wells and play in the desert, My favourite place to go. I hope to see you next year,” said Novak Djokovic.
Following what she called the “continued genocide of Black people,” Naomi Osaka pulled out of the Western & Southern Open in New York because there are “much more important matters at hand” than watching her play tennis. After the tweet from the world’s highest-paid female athlete, the US Open warmup announced there would be no play Thursday before […]
For the first time since March, Bianca Andreescu has lost a tennis match. In a blockbuster between the past two US Open champions, it was Osaka, the world No. 4 and 21-year-old from Japan, besting the 19-year-old Canadian 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in Beijing. It ends the 17-match unbeaten streak of Andreescu, who last lost in […]
Venus Williams and Naomi Osaka were among Monday’s winners as third-round singles play concluded for women and began for men at the BNP Paribas Open. Williams was a 6-2, 7-5 winner over American qualifier Christina McHale while Osaka, the world’s top-ranked women’s singles player and top seed in the women’s singles draw, defeated 25th-seeded American […]
