While stressing the positives that will come with Naomi Osaka’s decision to outline her mental health battles,Jelena Dokic says a media ban at one of the sport’s slams was bad timing.
As sure as grass follows clay,the blame for Naomi Osaka’s French Open exit on mental health grounds is being pinned squarely on the four grand slam tournaments. But this is not quite the full picture.
Japan’s Naomi Osaka has stunned the French Open by announcing she is withdrawing from the tournament in the wake of her decision to boycott post-match media duties.
The relationship on both ends has grown stale.
Naomi Osaka says she does not want to attend press conferences on mental health grounds. But her decision raises questions about the relationship between the media and public figures.
Naomi Osaka was fined and threatened with expulsion from the four grand slams after boycotting a press conference at the French Open.
Naomi Osaka progressed to the second round of the French Open on Sunday and made good on her promise to skip her post-match news conference.
Loathed instead of loved? Shunned instead of savoured? Clay has been down the pecking order for Australian tennis in recent decades,but things are changing.
The Women’s Tennis Association said it would welcome dialogue with Naomi Osaka over her decision to boycott press conferences at this year’s French Open.
World No.1 Ashleigh Barty is treating her return to Roland Garros as a ‘clean slate’ and doesn’t consider herself a defending champion for next week’s clay-court major.
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has stirred up some indignation by bailing out of media conferences at the French Open. But does she have a point?