{"id":24591,"date":"2021-05-27T19:52:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=24591"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:40:12","slug":"naomi-osaka-press-french-open","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-osaka-press-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka Will Not To Talk To Press At The French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24536\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-large wp-image-24536\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/05\/naomi-osaka-earning.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Naomi Osaka\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Osaka (Photo: Graham Denholm\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Wednesday, May 26, <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-osaka-tennis-earnings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> penned an impassioned letter announcing that she will not partake in the post-match press conference at the 2021 French Open. In an effort to safeguard her <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/prince-harry-docuseries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mental health<\/a>,\u00a0 the four-time Grand Slam singles champion shared her decision via <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/amy-cooper-central-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> just four days before the start of this year\u2019s second Grand Slam.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EegFSKnoie\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EegFSKnoie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NaomiOsaka\u5927\u5742\u306a\u304a\u307f (@naomiosaka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naomiosaka\/status\/1397665030015959040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">May 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve often felt that people have no regard for athletes&#8217; mental health, and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naomiosaka\/status\/1397665030015959040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 23-year-old wrote<\/a>. &#8220;We&#8217;re often sat there and asked questions that we&#8217;ve been asked multiple times before or asked questions that bring doubt into our minds and I&#8217;m just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me.&#8221; Athletes are often subjected to a flurry of questions underscored with criticism and for Osaka, observing players enter press rooms emotionally fragile and still encounter beratement feels like \u201ckicking a person while they&#8217;re down.\u201d Although, the tennis titan also clarifies that her decision is \u201cnothing personal\u201d to the tournament as she\u2019d developed cordial relationships with journalists over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Willing to accept the lofty fines for ditching the news conferences, Osaka said, &#8220;if the organizations think that they can just keep saying, &#8216;do press or you&#8217;re gonna be fined,&#8217; and continue to ignore the mental health of the athletes that are the centerpiece of their cooperation then I just gotta laugh.\u201d Osaka, who made $55 million last year (surpassing any female athlete <em>ever<\/em>), concluded, \u201cAnyways, I hope the considerable amount that I get fined for this will go towards a mental health charity.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the conversation of how press criticism can erode at the mental health of athletes, Osaka shared a clip from a then-14-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/k-swiss-venus-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venus Williams<\/a> when a reporter questioned her confidence in taking home a trophy against her upcoming opponent. &#8220;I know I can beat her&#8230;I&#8217;m very confident,&#8221; Williams grinned, to which the reporter responds, &#8220;You say it so easily. Why?&#8221; She continues, &#8220;Cause I believe it,&#8221; before her father Richard Williams steps in to defend her capabilities that would later lead her to become an Olympic gold medalist. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to understand that you&#8217;re dealing with [the] image of a 14-year-old child. And this child is gonna be out there playing when your old *ss and me are gonna be in the grave,&#8221; he told the reporter in the video. &#8220;You&#8217;re dealing with a little Black kid. Let her be a kid! 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