Naomi Osaka criticizes Jelena Ostapenko’s comments against Taylor Townsend

Naomi Osaka weighed the controversy that run between Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko after their second round US Open Match earlier this week.

After losing Townsend on Wednesday, Ostapenko explained In a heated exchange after the game, Townsend had ‘no class’ and ‘no education’, and added: ‘To see what happens’ when the two come across outside the American soil. Ostapenko later mentioned on social media That her problems with Townsend were caused by an observed lack of sportiness and etiquette during the competition.

“You are not going to insult me, especially after I had worn a certain kind of way with nothing but respect. If I show respect for you, I also expect respect,” Townend said. “Whatever is going on, I am against you, but at the end of the day we have to respect each other and respect what is happening on the field. It is competition.”

“I think it is clearly one of the worst things that you can say to a black tennis player in a majority of white sport,” said Osaka. “And granted, I know Taylor and I know how hard she has worked and I know how smart she is, so she’s furthest from unskilled or something like that.”

Osaka continued on the history of Ostapenko, which suggests that this may not be the first time that the Latvian has been a line of verbally exceeded.

“If you really ask me about the history of Ostapenko, I don’t think that’s the craziest thing she said. I’m going to be honest,” Osaka added. “I think it’s a bad timing and the worst person you could have said. And I don’t know if she knows its history in America.”

“I know she will never say that in her life again,” she continued. “But yes, I mean, it was just terrible. Like, that’s just very bad.”