in May 2021, she opted to withdraw from the conversations with media following the French Open. She was both scrutinized and fined.
After deciding to exit the match in general, she has opted out of all press since, making her return on August 16 ahead of the Western & Southern Open in Ohio.
After one question in particular, Osaka, 23, began to cry and momentarily walked away from the table. “You’re not crazy about dealing with us, especially in this format, yet you have a lot of outside interests that are served by having a media platform,” Paul Daugherty, a columnist for the Cincinnati Inquirer, began. “I guess my question is, how do you balance the two and also do you have anything you’d like to share with us about what you did say to.
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