FILE PHOTO: Three-times Wimbledon champion Boris Becker attends a news conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, November 7, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski
LONDON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Open champion Boris Becker said he fully respected the decision of Naomi Osaka to pull out of her semi-final at the Western & Southern Open in a protest against racial injustice.
American-based Japanese Osaka, who won the U.S. Open two years ago against Serena Williams, joined similar protests by athletes in the National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, on Sunday in Wisconsin.
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