Tennis icon Billie Jean King says she is ‘torn’ over Naomi Osaka‘s decision not to speak to the press during the French Open. The world No 2 announced before the Grand Slam that she was not going to be talking to the media to protect her mental health and, following her first round win on … Read more
Last Wednesday on social media that she would not participate in the mandatory media interviews at Roland-Garros 2021. Following this announcement, the Roland-Garros teams asked her to reconsider her position and tried unsuccessfully to speak with her to check on her well-being, understand the specifics of her issue and what might be done to address it … Read more
MIKE DICKSON: I sympathise with Naomi Osaka’s plight, but talking is part of the deal – nobody is bigger than the game and the Grand Slams are right to reassert that principle Sharing your thoughts is a key part of the grand bargain of professional sports There is a reason every player who reaches the … Read more
Last Wednesday on social media that she would not participate in the mandatory media interviews at Roland-Garros 2021. Following this announcement, the Roland-Garros teams asked her to reconsider her position and tried unsuccessfully to speak with her to check on her well-being, understand the specifics of her issue and what might be done to address it … Read more
Rafael Nadal questions Naomi Osaka’s press boycott at the French Open… with world No 2 warning rivals that ‘we will not be the athletes that we are today’ WITHOUT the media Rafael Nadal says he respects Naomi Osaka’s decision but doesn’t agree with it The 23-year-old revealed her decision via a social media post earlier … Read more
As someone who began facing very large press conferences at the age of seventeen I can understand why they might make Naomi Osaka uneasy. Yet I cannot agree with her refusing to speak to the media at the forthcoming French Open, as she announced this week. When I heard about it my first thought is … Read more