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TopicWhat's your stance on the naomi osaka situation?
xp1337
06/01/21 8:25:59 PM
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In her post about her withdrawing from the tournament she mentioned that she had reached out privately to the tournament to see if they could work something out, but uh... that apparently didn't work out. (The "apparently didn't work out" is my stating the obvious; Osaka didn't write that part to be clear)

Even if you wanted to give the French Open the benefit of the doubt for whatever reason, it's just so hard to given their behavior at every turn here. There was the deleted passive-aggressive subtweet I mentioned, the fact that they began a statement with "We value the mental health of all athletes" in the same one they immediately followed with a threat of future disqualifications including future Grand Slams, that the tournament director ironically didn't take questions from the press and just left after giving his statement about Osaka withdrawing...

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