Naomi Osaka made a statement as she walked onto the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night.
She hopes to stick around long enough …
Naomi Osaka made a statement as she walked onto the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night. She hopes to stick around long enough to make six more. The No.4 seed wore a black face mask that had Breonna Taylor’s name on it, then went the distance to fend off Misaki Doi 6-2,5-7,6-2 in her first-round match at the U. S. Open. The 2018 U. S. Open champion said after the match that she has six more masks with six different names on them. Taylor, the 26-year-old black woman who was shot and killed by police in Louisville in March, was the first as Osaka tries to keep the fight for racial equality and social justice in the spotlight.
