Marketa Vondrousova
Posted on 07/27/2021 4:49:30 AM PDT by Cecily
Naomi Osaka's bid to become the first Japanese player ever to win tennis Olympic gold came to a abrupt halt as she was beaten in straight sets by Marketa Vondrousova in the last-16.
The Games was Osaka's first tournament since withdrawing from both the French Open and Wimbledon, citing her struggles with depression and anxiety. She had lit the cauldron in the opening ceremony last week and was Japan's poster girl of their home Olympics.
Osaka, the world No 2 and a four-time Grand Slam champion, was considered the tennis tournament favourite once Wimbledon champion and world No 1 Ash Barty suffered a shock round one exit but she admitted pressure got to her today.
Vondrousova, who reached the final of the French Open in 2019, was ruthless in her execution and having took the first set 6-1 in just 24 minutes, she held her nerve in the second set to run out 6-1, 6-4 winner.
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A manager that allowed/encouraged her to do as their korporate sponsors wanted at the expense of her training is also not focused on her sport.
Marketa Vondrousova
Naomi is of mixed race and she made herself into the Japanese branch of BLM.
That’s great! I always thought the Czech girls name Marketa was curious. Funny the story focuses on the loser, not the winner.
Can’t wait for the racism charges to explain away Biles’ departure from the team competition.
Choked? As of last night she had the high score in every individual event. She has multiple gold medals from previous olympics. And you call that choking? She was withdrawn because of an injury.
Collateral damage of the intersectionality movement. So sad.
Collateral damage of the intersectionality movement. So sad.
Another woke dummy loses.
It got Faucied. There, fixed it.
That said, people will generally get more sympathy if they're not hanging out with a bunch of woke cultists who call us bigots as a tactic, and tell us we have no place in their woke future.
I don’t know Flavious ... Obozo is a Kenyan... Illegal aliens’ anchor babies are really [fill in the country] .... Naomi, blm-supporter, is Japanese works for me.
No, but she aligned herself with them.
https://time.com/5888583/naomi-osaka-masks-black-lives-matter-us-open/
Get woke, go choke.
If she was born in Japan 23 years ago, does that make her responsible for the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor? Just applying reparations logic here.
shes been bitching about the “pressure” on her all week...they just said “physically shes fine”....she choked. Man, i thought the female figure skaters were divas...wish they would just drop female gymnastics from the games.....aint worth all the drama and hysteria....gets annoying after awhile....bitching about the uniforms... everything...geez, enough.
Let’s understand who Naomi Osaka really is. She is a tennis player, born in Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother and moved to the USA when she was three and has lived here ever since, now living in a $14,000,000.00 mansion in California. Last year when she became “woke” she wore a BLM mask during the US Open and gave interviews, reiterating her hatred for America, actually calling it GENOCIDAL. When she won and received her trophy, her black rapper boyfriend came to the podium with her and during the event, flipped the bird to the cameras. This year she has “stepped back” from tennis because of mental stress and issues.
A bunch of these medal winners competing for other countries grew up in the US- its always been that way.
Her statement is correct if by “the U.S.” she means “American black men.”
Stupid Gaijin, never should have been the one to light the Flame. Japanese are happy today.
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