Naomi Osaka exploits Jelena Ostapenko after her heated exchange with Taylor Towsend in the US Open.
Posted on August 29, 2025
Naomi Osaka said that using words as “without education” and “no class” to criticize a black tennis player was one of the worst things to say, since the debate about a heated row between Taylor Towsend and Jelena Ostapenko was enraged in the US Open.
Towsend, which is black, exceeded the champion of the 2017 Open Ostopenko 7-5, 6-1 in a hard second round battle on Wednesday.
However, the inflammation point occurred shortly after the game point, when the couple hurts verbally on the network, with the let you repeatedly moving their finger to the American.
Towsend revealed a part of the exchange during his interview on the court, after which he said during his press conference that Ostopenko would have to answer if there were “racial nuances” to the altercation.
Ostapenko said on Instagram later that his anger arose from Towsend's refusal to apologize after winning a point at a fundamental moment when his ball cut the network and stayed at stake, while accused of the American of being “disrespectful.”
Sorry to win a point with the help of the net cordon is a tradition that most players adhere, but are not obliged to do so.
The Latvian added in another statement that he had never been racist in his life, but Osaka said that the words Ostapeko chose during the altercation were in bad taste.
“It is one of the worst things you can tell a black tennis player in a major white sport,” said the four -time Grand Slam Osaka winner.
“I know Taylor and I know how hard he has worked and I know how intelligent it is, so it is the furthest from without education or something.”
Osaka, born of a Japanese mother and Haitian father, has been an open defender of the Black Lives Matter movement both in the United States, where he lives and in Japan. She was a campaign champion defender during her career to the Flushing Meadows 2020 title.
The 27 -year -old had used her platform to highlight racial injustice in the United States to a broader audience by using a different facial mask, each with the name of an African -American who had been killed in recent years, before each of her seven games.
“If you are like really asking me about Ostapeko's story, I don't think that is the craziest he has said. I'm going to be honest,” Osaka continued with a smile.
“I think it's a bad moment and the worst person you could have said. And I don't know if she knows the history of it in the United States.
“I know he will never say that in his life. But yes, it was simply terrible. That is really bad.”
American Coco Gautf got into the debate, saying that although Ostapenko should not have said what he said, it was a “heat of the moment.”
“I know what was said after the game,” said Goorf, another vocal defender of social problems, including racial justice.
“It was a heat of the moment. Jelena probably felt emotions after she lost. I think that should not have said independently of how you feel … knowing Taylor personally, it is the opposite of that.”
Gobf said Towsend was one of the most pleasant people who knew and expected people to now make more information about it.
“Maybe this is the first people listening to who Taylor is, and I don't want it to be the main approach of who she is because it is much more than that.
“She is a mother, a great friend, a talented tennis player and a good person. At the end of this tournament, I hope people immerse themselves in it and know her more than what was said in the previous game.”
