Naomi Osaka drops out of tennis tourney in response to Jacob Blake shooting

The world's highest paid female athlete is dropping out of one of the first tennis tournaments in the Covid-19 era. Naomi Osaka's withdrawal from the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament in New York came as athletes strike over their disdain for police violence, as demonstrated in the shooting earlier this week of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. "Watching the continued genocide of Black people at the hand of the police is honestly making me sick to my stomach," she wrote. Blake is a Black…