Naomi Osaka is taking a mental health break and withdraw from the Berlin WTA 5000 tournament, weeks after she pulled out of the French Open for the same reason. “We have received notification Naomi Osaka cannot start in Berlin.
After consulting her management, she will take a break,” the event organizers said in a statement.According to The Grio, the 23-year-old athlete was fined $15K for not attending to the French Open post-match news conference.
The statement said Osaka has been “advised” that “should she continue to ignore her media obligations during the tournament, she would be exposing herself to possible further Code of Conduct infringement consequences.”Later Osaka released a statement informing her decision to withdraw from the.