The crowd booed as Naomi Osaka won her first US Open. This time they weren't there at all

ANALYSIS: Naomi Osaka deserved better two years ago and deserved better in 2020

"I think it's better than going into shower and crying," she told Gauff when the teenager said she was going to be too emotional.As it turns out, the inspiration might have worked a little too well, withOsaka has worn masks honouring Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Ahmaud Arbery, Philando Castile and Trayvon Martin.

"Watching the continued genocide of black people at the hand of the police is honestly making me sick to my stomach." When Trayvon Martin's mother and Ahmaud Arbery's father delivered personalised messages to her, Osaka somehow held it together on the ESPN telecast, but admitted after the fact that she shed more than a few tears.The woman once described as the most awkward person on tour has transformed, but done so in typically quiet fashion.

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