Go Ahead, Count Naomi Osaka Out
Naomi Osaka doesn’t usually follow pretournament chatter before she hits the court, but last month was an exception. One evening she heard a former rival of hers, Caroline Wozniacki, analyzing the lineup for the Miami Open on TV and predicting who would advance.
Wozniacki’s picks assumed that Osaka would lose her next match.
The assessment was fair, given Osaka’s struggles lately. The 24-year-old’s extremely public unraveling since disclosing mental health challenges and withdrawing from the French Open last spring has been excruciating to watch. In the past year, Osaka fell from the top-ranked women’s tennis player in the world to 85th.… Seguir leyendo »