Naomi Osaka has tremendous support in her advocacy for the mental health of professional tennis players. Osaka took a mental-health break earlier this year by dropping out of the French Open.
Osaka, 23, has been critical about the intensity of media requirements that players must endure. The focus of Netflix’s “Naomi” docuseries shared her ideas in a newly penned essay for Time magazine. “The press conference format itself is out of date and in great need of a refresh,” she wrote. “I believe that we can make it better, more interesting, and more enjoyable for each side.
Less subject vs. object; more peer to peer.” Some fear that other players will follow her lead and revolt, but, she writes, “no one in tennis has missed a press conference
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