“We often get questions that we’ve answered several times before. We often get questions that we start doubting about ourselves. And I won’t talk to people who doubt me,” the former world number one on Twitter wrote.
Twenty-three-year-old Osaka also called the obligation to attend press conferences after the defeats as digging into corpses. “I often feel that people don’t care about the mental health of athletes, and the press releases only confirm that. That’s why I won’t go to them in Paris,” she said.
Osaka expects to receive a large fine for the missed press conferences on Roland Garros. The second player in the world rankings is ready to pay, but she hopes that the money will go to a charity connected with mental health.
— Naomi Osaka Naomi Osaka (@naomiosaka) May 26, 2021
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