{"id":25192,"date":"2021-06-02T01:05:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=194511"},"modified":"2021-06-02T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:19:22","slug":"naomi-osaka-french-open-pulls-out","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/naomi-osaka-french-open-pulls-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Publicly Support Naomi Osaka Following Her Decision To Step Back From Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD\/AFP via Getty Images. Japan’s Naomi Osaka celebrates after winning against Belarus’ Victoria Azarenka during their women’s singles second round match on day five of The Roland Garros 2019 French Open tennis tournament in Paris on May 30, 2019. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Monday, Naomi Osaka<\/a>, the reigning U.S. Open and Australian Open singles champion, announced she was withdrawing from the French Open.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahead of the tennis tournament’s start, Osaka announced she wouldn’t be doing press during the championship in an effort to preserve her mental health, noting she would pay the fine implemented by the tournament that would accompany her decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Sunday, Osaka picked up her first win and a $15,000 fine for not participating in media requirements. She then took to social media to reveal her decision to step back entirely from the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The best thing for the tournament, the other players and my well-being is that I withdraw so that everyone can get back to focusing on the tennis going on in Paris,” the 23-year-old wrote on Instagram. “I never wanted to be a distraction and I accept that my timing was not ideal and my message could have been clearer. More importantly, I would never trivialize mental health or use the term lightly.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Osaka went on to reveal she has suffered long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018, and that post-match interviews made her “get huge waves of anxiety\u201d beforehand.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who knows me knows I\u2019m introverted, and anyone who\u2019s seen me at tournaments will notice that I\u2019m often wearing headphones as that helps dull my social anxiety,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

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