the cartoon -- because it 's racist as hell .
https : t.coyoxvmutxec nine days before she beat serena williams in the finals of the u.s. open , naomi osaka already seemed bored talking about her own life story .
but , let 's get serious , it looks like a jim crow - era , sambo - style caricature of a black person -- not serena williams .
williams was given three code violations during her straight - sets loss to naomi osaka on saturday .
serena williams was portrayed as an angry baby in a cartoon published in the australian newspaper the herald sun on monday , two days after the 23 - time grand slam tennis champion lost her cool in a dramatic us open final .
according to a recent profile in the new york times magazine , the temperature in boca raton had soared above 90 degrees , but on a side court at the evert tennis academy , naomi osaka was just digging into one of her last training sessions before the summer hardcourt season .
on the sideline , osaka ’s japanese mother , tamaki , sat in the shade in a denim jumpsuit and sunglasses , her daughter ’s miniature australian shepherd sitting by her feet .
wearing leggings and a tank top — her magnificent mane of frizzy blond - tinted hair emerging from the back of her adidas cap — the 20 - year - old smacked crisp topspin groundstrokes with her coach , sascha bajin , a german of serb descent best known for working as serena williams ’s hitting partner for eight years .
it was a somewhat oversimplified version of the rising tennis star ’s unusual story : her father , leonard francois , is haitian ; her mother , tamaki osaka , is japanese .