Player wore covering with George Floyd’s name before latest win‘I’m a vessel, in order to spread awareness,’ says title favouriteNaomi Osaka continued to highlight racial injustice in the
United States by wearing a mask displaying the name of George Floyd, the black
American who died after a white
police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis in May, before her quarter-final win at the
US Open. It was the fifth of seven face coverings the former champion has brought to Flushing Meadows.
After Osaka’s 6-3, 6-4 victory over Shelby Rogers,
ESPN showed video messages from Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, and Marcus Arbery Sr, the father of Ahmaud Arbery, two of the five names she has worn on face masks at the grand slam.