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Naomi Osaka lost her tennis match Saturday, but a heckler set off a chain of events that made her cry.
Naomi was playing Veronika Kudermetova at the Indian Wells Tourney outside Palm Springs, when a woman in the stands screamed, "Naomi, you suck!”
Naomi was losing 3-0 in the first set when she begged the ump to let her take the mic and talk to the audience, promising, "I just want to say something. I'm not going to curse. I don't curse. It's just weighing on my heart.”
Officials would not oblige, but promised to boot the heckler if she dared tried it again. It was too late for Naomi because she lost the first set 6-0 and the second 6-4.
After losing, Naomi told the crowd, "To be honest, I've been heckled before. It didn't really bother me. But heckled here, like, I've watched a video of Venus and Serena get heckled here, and if you've never watched it, you should watch it. I don't know why, but it went into my head and got replayed a lot.”
Source: TMZ.
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