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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Someday soon, there’ll be a joke, whose punch line will be, “The 2020 Tokyo Olympics”.
She suffers from severe, debilitating anxiety. It’s a real thing in her case and she struggles with it.
This slice of Humble Pie might shut her up for a week or two. Then she’ll be back to complaining about her terrible,terrible treatment.
Didn’t the Olympics always happen in an even numbered year?
It says she is from Japan.
Is there a Japanese branch of BLM?
I’m surprised at Barty, not surprised at Osaka and impressed with Vondrousova.
We watch most tennis championships.
Beats me... I haven’t paid attention to any Olympics since the mid-70s.
Make that 2021... I hate it when that happens.
….yeah, you haven’t been watching at all. It’s the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on EVERY logo,. It’s just being held in 2021.
Like everything else in the world, it’s fecked up.
its called choking....Simon Biles just choked and quit the gymnastics competition....cant handle the pressure.
Can she play the Race Card?
I wondered why it was being touted as the 2020 olympics here in 2021 but then I realized that it was supposed to be held last year but cancelled due to covid......
She’s a useful idiot:
Naomi Osaka made sure Black lives mattered at the US Open
https://theundefeated.com/features/naomi-osaka-made-sure-black-lives-mattered-at-the-us-open/
It's Leftist math. Since they couldn't hold the games last year when scheduled, they are holding them this year, but backdating them the 2020 Olympics.
shes got a big mouth and doesnt think....last year this punk said “the U.S. is committing genocide against black men”...shes a psychopath....
The CCP had a hand cut n turning it into a shitshow
That Mark Spitz is goin' places! :) (Me neither)
Q: "What sporting event was held in 2021?"
A: “The 2020 Tokyo Olympics”.
Osaka is 23 years old. She left Japan when she was 2 years old to live in the USA with her parents.
She grew up in Florida and recently moved to California.
Calling her a “Japanese” is a freaking joke.
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