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.
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In a stunning submit to an Instagram account listed to her identify, Mari Osaka, alleges her father dedicated home abuse, warns him “I will kill you unless you kill me first” and calls herself “the daughter to the devil. God help me when he comes again.”
It’s a scathing indictment of the daddy Mari Osaka manufacturers an abuser and says has “failed in every way imaginable.”
The submit to Mari Osaka’s account and her social media channels have since been deleted.
This display shot is a seize of the Instagram submit listed to Mari Osaka’s account.
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 identify.
“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 reads. “You continue to emotionally abuse her and trespass into our home when you have your own.
“I’m making this public data 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 following time I see your face, I’m calling the police. Consider this a risk.
“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 although I’ve already identified since start I’m the daughter to the satan.
“God help me when he comes again.”
Leonard François is the daddy and unique coach of each Mari Osaka and Naomi Osaka, who has not but publicly commented on the abuse allegations cited within the Instagram submit. He has returned to function Naomi Osaka’s interim coach a few instances in previous years.
Leonard François is Haitian and his spouse, Tamaki Osaka, is Japanese. Their daughters, Mari Osaka and Naomi Osaka, have been initially introduced up in Queens and Long Island, New York earlier than the household moved to Florida the place the sisters each educated extensively for his or her tennis careers.
Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka overtly mentioned her psychological well being points and battle with despair, finally taking a 15-month sabbatical from the game for each psychological well being and to offer start to daughter Shai final July.
Naomi Osaka, who has reunited together with her former coach Wim Fissette, made her comeback in Brisbane final week.
In her first event since giving start 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 stated then her father won’t 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 stated 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 stated he’ll take the [coaching] position very critically, however I do not suppose it is a long-term factor.”
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