"Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims Tournament?"
"In women's tennis I always root against the heterosexual."
Posted on 05/31/2021 12:54:57 PM PDT by Conserv
You mean because she is a hāfu?
The media in general sucks, and that includes the sports media, but Osaka is not worthy of sympathy. She’s a BLM pushing leftist, who used the platform eagerly offered up to her by the leftist media organization ESPN to spout her BLM garbage at the US Open last year. And of course she was widely praised and congratulated by the media for using her sports platform to push the leftist ideas that Osaka and the media have in common.
Osaka was a likable figure when she was across the court from Serena when Serena has her meltdown of bad sportsmanship and entitlement a few years ago at the US Open. She’s tossed any good will from having to endure that spectacle out the window by helping to infect tennis with politics.
She’s a BLM pushing leftist, >>
i did not know that. If so, i agree with you.
Oh yeah. I checked to make sure I was remembering correctly. Just search and you’ll see picture and videos of her wearing “Black Lives Matter” masks at the US Open last year.
To be fair, pretty much every pro tennis player of note, especially the men, virtue signaled with BLM garbage last year. BLM shirts were being worn by numerous players. Idiot Greek Tsitsipas even reached out to Osaka to be educated on the matter. Seriously, to be educated by a 22 year old who isn’t even an an African American. The three GOATs - Federer, Nadal and Djokovic- all participated in that blackout in social media for BLM. I expected nothing less from Federer and Nadal being beloved corporate spokesmen and with a soft and easy upbringing, but I thought Djokovic might be more resistant to that nonsense growing up in a war torn area.
But that’s that. No sport was really immune last year. Even the PGA infected their coverage with BLM garbage.
Look and any major professional sport and compare the revenue generated from TV to the revenue generated from ticket sales. The difference is staggering. Without extensive media coverage, these tennis players would be competing at the French Open for a $100,000 purse and would be lucky to get another $25,000 in endorsement contracts.
Women’s tennis will benefit from her full departure.
LOL, You'd have to be blind to not root for the heterosexual :)
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