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 serious bombshell on Instagram charging their father Leonard François with committing home abuse towards her and her mom, Tamaki Osaka.
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In a surprising publish to an Instagram account listed to her title, Mari Osaka, alleges her father dedicated home abuse, warns him “I’ll kill you except you kill me first” and calls herself “the daughter to the satan. God assist me when he comes once more.”
It is a scathing indictment of the daddy Mari Osaka manufacturers an abuser and says has “failed in each approach possible.”
The publish to Mari Osaka’s account and her social media channels have since been deleted.
This display screen shot is a seize of the Instagram publish listed to Mari Osaka’s account.
Mari Osaka’s publish features a picture of her father and tags ioaproductions, which is an Instagram account listed as a non-profit organization under her father’s name.
“You’ve got abused me since I used to be younger and also you proceed to harass my mom,” the publish to Mari Osaka’s now deleted Instagram account reads. “You proceed to emotionally abuse her and trespass into our house when you’ve gotten your personal.
“I am making this public information as a result of you’re a coward who hides behind his bodily means to beat me down and our refusal to name the cops on you.That is it. I am actually finished with you and the subsequent time I see your face, I am calling the police. Contemplate this a menace.
“I’ll battle again and I’ll battle for each of us. I’ll kill you except you kill me first by bringing a gun just like the coward you’re.
“So let’s examine what sort of man you actually are despite the fact that I’ve already recognized since delivery I am the daughter to the satan.
“God assist me when he comes once more.”
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 publish. He has returned to function Naomi Osaka’s interim coach a few occasions 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 Lengthy Island, New York earlier than the household moved to Florida the place the sisters each skilled extensively for his or her tennis careers.
4-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka overtly mentioned her psychological well being points and battle with melancholy, ultimately taking a 15-month sabbatical from the game for each psychological well being and to present delivery 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 match since giving delivery to child Shai, the two-time Australian Open champion gained 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 gained back-to-back titles in her hometown of Osaka and Beijing with Leonard François teaching her.
Regardless of their success, Osaka mentioned then her father is not going to be her full-time coach. As a result of dad will get too tight watching her play.
“He is at all times there, you realize. However I do not suppose he can deal with it,” Osaka mentioned of her father. “Like, not even simply saying this, however he does not like watching my matches. I believe it stresses him out as a result of he, like, twitches each time I hit a ball.
“He mentioned he’ll take the [coaching] function very severely, however I do not suppose it is a long-term factor.”
Picture credit score: Rob Keating/Wikimedia Commons
