And are you going to make the Olympics suddenly or not?
The list will be released next week. We will be four maximum to enter in singles. I will be a bit limited with my ranking at 74 there. But then, in front, there are more than four American women, more than four Czechs, so that takes people away.
There are a lot of packages for the Olympics that have just fallen: Nadal, Thiem, Osaka …
Osaka is Wimbledon, right?
Yes, yes, sorry! She said she would play the Olympics.
Anyway, I think she doesn’t have much choice! Laughs If she’s not here in Japan, there’s no point in doing the Olympics I think! (Naomi Osaka is Japanese, editor’s note)
So you, are you going to go if you are selected?
It is true that the conditions are very different from normal Olympics. It is not known if there will be Japanese public, the sanitary conditions will be strict. And it’s halfway around the world for us in tennis planning. We therefore keep abreast of the latest news from the Federation.
Let’s go back for a few moments to Naomi Osaka. At Roland Garros, she spoke about her psychological state. At first, her communication was not very clear, she said that she would not do the post-match press conferences, mandatory for all players, without really giving a reason, then a few days later, While controversies arose as a result of his remarks, she withdrew from the tournament, citing phases of depression since her victory at the US Open in 2018. What happened is not trivial, c is a real subject that the world tennis bodies must address, isn’t it?
It’s a real subject, yes. But it’s something that has been around forever actually. If anyone can tell me a player, regardless of their ranking, who did not have what is called a depression, a mini depression or who was at the bottom of the hole … Everyone had to go through the. After that, there are more or less difficult periods for different reasons. I imagine that the girl who is 250th in the world ranking at the moment and who cannot pay her rent must be stressed too… So I understand very well that it is difficult after a match, a defeat, to go and answer to journalists where they ask you “Why did you lose?”, “Why can’t you win anymore?”, “Why were you 4 and now you’re 74?”…
Sorry to have told you that suddenly …
… Oh no, it’s your job. But I imagine that if we had the answers, we wouldn’t be in these situations. Sometimes it’s difficult to go to the press room, to express yourself but that is part, as it exists in all jobs, of things to do. It is also because there is the press, the TV, the journalists that tennis is one of the most professional sports in the world, with lots of money, high salaries, broadcasts all over the world … That’s why you have patches on your clothes, why you have millions of followers. So going to the press room is sometimes not easy, but it has its downsides. You have to do both to get the positives. Sometimes you’re tired and you don’t feel like working out and you go anyway, because you know why actually. I can understand her situation very well, I hope she will get better soon. She did things a little awkwardly but everyone has complicated parts for different reasons, and you have to know how to do things that you don’t necessarily want to do.
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