Naomi Osaka has made a call on her Wimbledon campaign.
— a response to the All England Club's decision to bar all players from Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine.
“I feel like if I play Wimbledon without points, it’s more like an exhibition. I know this isn’t true, right? But my brain just like feels that way. Whenever I think something is like an exhibition, I just can’t go at it 100 per cent,” Osaka said then., who was the runner-up at the All England Club in 2014, announced Friday on social media that she would not play at Wimbledon because there are no ranking points available. Bouchard is working her way back from surgery on her right shoulder.
She has not won a match at the All England Club since getting to the third round in 2018. Osaka lost in the first round of Wimbledon in 2019, and the tournament was cancelled in 2020 because of COVID-19.Australian OpenThe 24-year-old Osaka has played only 17 matches this season as her ranking fell to No.43 this week.
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