UPDATE: Apparently, Naomi Osaka suffered from a foot-in-mouth fault.Osaka took to social media today to clear up confusion over her acceptance speech after winning the Australian Open.
In the moment, she called her runner-up Jennifer Brady “Jennifer” despite being told moments before that her preferred form of address was “Jenny.”“Omg no,” Osaka wrote on Twitter with two crying emojis. “I promise you my mind thought I called her Jenny in that moment and I was so confused why the crowd was laughing.
I’m so sorry.”EARLIER: Australian Open winner Naomi Osaka got the name game wrong.After Osaka’s match with runner-up Jennifer Brady, Osaka had a gaffe during her acceptance speech.
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