World No. 2 Naomi Osaka, who controversially exited the French Open tennis citing psychological well being points, has additionally withdrawn from the Berlin WTA grass court docket event starting June 14.
Tournament organisers mentioned on Monday that Naomi, who had withdrawn precisely per week in the past from Roland Garros, had knowledgeable them that she wouldn’t begin within the Berlin event.
The Japanese, winner of three Grand Slam titles, has not made it clear when she wish to get again on court docket. With the Wimbledon set to begin on June 28 and the Tokyo Olympics starting on July 23, the Berlin event would have been the best preparation for the grass-court main and the Olympics.
Naomi, 23, had withdrawn from the French Open final Monday over her stand to talk to the media because of her psychological well being.
Naomi had defeated Romania’s Patricia Maria Tig on May 30, however didn’t flip as much as face the media. This prompted the organisers to high quality her $15,000 and be warned that she confronted expulsion from Grand Slam tournaments if she continued to take action.
On May 31, she posted an announcement on Twitter, saying that she had “suffered long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018” and that “it was better to exercise self-care and skip the press conferences” as a result of she will get “huge waves of anxiety before”.
The world No. 2 headed house to Los Angeles after her French Open withdrawal.
Naomi has since written a message of due to her followers for the “love” she has acquired since withdrawing from the French Open.
In her first social media exercise since then, the 23-year-old wrote in an Instagram story: “Just want to say thank you for all the love. Haven’t been on my phone much but I wanted to hop on here and tell you all that I really appreciate it.”
