Naomi Osaka, who resumed her Western and Southern Open campaign on Friday after reversing a decision to withdraw, advanced to the final with a 6-2, 7-6(5) straight-set victory over Belgium's Elise Mertens.Osaka, a child of a Haitian father and Japanese mother, said on Twitter after her quarterfinal win she would pull out of the tournament in New York to protest against racial injustice, joining athletes in other sports.The two-time Grand Slam champion tweeted that she was exhausted and "sick to my stomach" over the many black people killed by police, and she was withdrawing to "get a conver…READ FULL ARTICLE
