Japanese tennis champion Naomi Osaka began crying after stopping play mid-match to call out a heckler in the Indian Wells crowd.
The former world No.1 seemed out of sorts and distracted as she lost her first set 0-6 to Russian player Veronika Kudermetova at the WTA 1000 event.
It was during the first set when a crowd member was heard yelling, “Naomi, you suck”, during a Kudermetova service game.
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Osaka – currently ranked 78th in the world – stopped play to walk to the chair umpire, and asked if she could speak into the microphone to address the spectators.
She then began crying.
Osaka rallied and composed herself to continue the match, and improved in the second set.
She lost the match 0-6 4-6 to the Russian to be bundled out of the tournament.
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