Pushing through. Naomi Osaka gave a press conference for the first time since her May exit from the French Open, but it didn’t go as smoothly as she might have liked.The tennis star, 23, was participating in a press conference on Monday, August 16, to discuss her appearance at the Western & Southern Open currently taking place in Ohio.
According to The New York Times writer Ben Rothenberg, a Cincinnati reporter asked her a “fairly aggressively toned” question about why she has difficulty with post-match interviews.In a video from the event, Osaka explained her decision to step back after French Open organizers fined her for not participating in press conferences, but it wasn’t clear whether she was responding to that question specifically.“
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