Sign up to the Front Page newsletter for free: Your essential guide to the day's agenda from The Telegraph - direct to your inbox seven days a week. Strong comment from the German on Osaka.
He told Eurosport: “Sadly I’ve heard her first response a couple of days ago about this media boycott and she cited mental health issues, that’s something always to be taken seriously, especially from such a young woman. “She couldn’t cope with the pressures of facing the media, especially after losing a match.
Now Mats, you and me both know that happens frequently and you have to deal with it and I always believed that is part of the job. “Without the media there isn’t any prize money, there isn’t any contracts.
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