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 significant bombshell on Instagram charging their father Leonard François with committing home abuse in opposition to her and her mom, Tamaki Osaka.
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In a stunning put up to an Instagram account listed to her title, Mari Osaka, alleges her father dedicated home abuse, warns him “I’ll kill you until 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 put up to Mari Osaka’s account and her social media channels have since been deleted.
This display shot is a seize of the Instagram put up listed to Mari Osaka’s account.
Mari Osaka’s put up features a photograph of her father and tags ioaproductions, which is an Instagram account listed as a non-profit group beneath her father’s title.
“You’ve got abused me since I used to be younger and also you proceed to harass my mom,” the put up to Mari Osaka’s now deleted Instagram account reads. “You proceed to emotionally abuse her and trespass into our house when you will have your personal.
“I am making this public data as a result of you’re a coward who hides behind his bodily skill to beat me down and our refusal to name the cops on you.That is it. I am actually carried out with you and the following time I see your face, I am calling the police. Think about this a risk.
“I’ll combat again and I’ll combat for each of us. I’ll kill you until you kill me first by bringing a gun just like the coward you’re.
“So let’s have a look at what sort of man you actually are though I’ve already identified 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 put up. He has returned to function Naomi Osaka’s interim coach a few instances in previous years.
Leonard François is Haitian and his spouse, Tamaki Osaka, is Japanese. Their daughters, Mari Osaka and Naomi Osaka, had 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 brazenly mentioned her psychological well being points and battle with melancholy, finally taking a 15-month sabbatical from the game for each psychological well being and to provide 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 event 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 stated then her father won’t 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 stated of her father. “Like, not even simply saying this, however he would not like watching my matches. I feel it stresses him out as a result of he, like, twitches each time I hit a ball.
“He stated he’ll take the [coaching] position very significantly, however I do not suppose it is a long-term factor.”
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