By Alberto Amalfi | @Tennis_Now | Sunday, January 7, 2024
Naomi Osaka launched her comeback in Brisbane final week.
Mari Osaka, Naomi Osaka’s older sister, dropped a significant bombshell on Instagram charging their father Leonard François with committing home abuse in opposition to her and her mom, Tamaki Osaka, and pulling a gun.
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In a surprising submit to an Instagram account listed to her title, Mari Osaka, alleges her father dedicated home abuse, manufacturers him a coward “by bringing a gun” and calls herself “the daughter to the devil. God help me when he comes again.”
The submit to Mari Osaka’s account and her social media channels have been deleted since.
This display shot is a seize of the Instagram submit. Mari Osaka’s submit features a photograph of her father and tags ioaproductions, which is an Instagram account listed as a non-profit group below her father’s title.
“You’ve abused me since I was young and you continue to harass my mother,” the submit to Mari Osaka’s now deleted Instagram account learn. “You continue to emotionally abuse her and trespass into our home when you have your own.
“I’m making this public information as a result of you’re a coward who hides behind his bodily capacity to beat me down and our refusal to name the cops on you.This is it. I’m actually executed with you and the subsequent time I see your face, I’m calling the police. Consider this a menace.
“I will fight back and I will fight for both of us. I will kill you unless you kill me first by bringing a gun like the coward you are.
“So let’s examine what sort of man you actually are though I’ve already recognized since beginning I’m the daughter to the satan. God assist me when he comes once more.”
Leonard François is the father and original coach of both Mari Osaka and Naomi Osaka, who has not yet publicly commented on the abuse allegations cited in the Instagram post. He has returned to serve as Naomi Osaka’s interim coach a couple of teams.
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka openly discussed her mental health issues and battle with depression, eventually taking a 15-month sabbatical from the sport for both mental health and to give birth to daughter Shai last July.
Naomi Osaka, who has reunited with her former coach Wim Fissette, made her comeback in Brisbane last week.
In her first match since giving beginning to child Shai, the two-time Australian Open champion received her opener over Tamara Korpatsch 6-3, 7-6(9).
In a conflict of former world No. 1 gamers, Karolina Pliskova pumped 16 aces rallying previous Naomi Osaka 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-4 into the Brisbane spherical of 16.
In 2019, Naomi Osaka received back-to-back titles in her hometown of Osaka and Beijing with Leonard François teaching her.
Despite their success, Osaka mentioned then her father is not going to be her full-time coach. Because dad will get too tight watching her play.
“He’s always there, you know. But I don’t think he can handle it,” Osaka mentioned of her father. “Like, not even just saying this, but he doesn’t like watching my matches. I think it stresses him out because he, like, twitches every time I hit a ball.
“He mentioned he’ll take the [coaching] function very critically, however I do not assume it is a long-term factor.”
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