Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open after being embarrassed by the media. The reigning Australian Open winner had intended to go to Paris to defend her title against Jelena Ostapenko, but after the Australian Open media were given an all-access pass to Osaka’s Wuhan training camp she made the unusual decision of withdrawing from the tournament. The decision was surprising given the fact that the world No. 1 had been dominating the tournament and had lost only three games in six matches. She confirmed the decision in an Instagram post, writing: “I never thought that I would say this in my career but for each and every person who was blaming me, for each and every person who was saying mean things about me, for each
Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open after being forced to ‘stay in the shadows’ by the French media. Osaka’s withdrawal comes after the French Tennis Federation and the French Open threatened to withdraw the Osaka’s entry into the tournament if her name was not removed from the tournament’s official team list. The threat came after French media published reports that Osaka had received death threats from French writer Sylvain Wiltord, who accused her of stealing a hairband and…