Naomi Osaka Cries At BNP Paribas Open After Heckler Gets Best Of Her
An unidentified woman Saturday shouting “Naomi, you suck!” brought tennis star Naomi Osaka to tears during a second-round match at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. During her tilt against Veronika Kudermetova, Osaka stopped the match and asked the chair umpire to remove the heckler and if she could address the crowd—both of which were denied. “To be honest, I’ve gotten heckled before, it didn’t really bother me,” Osaka told the crowd after she lost. “But [being] heckled here, I watched a video of Venus and Serena [Williams] getting heckled here, and if you’ve never watched it, you ...