10/11/2023 12:35hs.
Women’s tennis woke up with the good news that the Japanese Naomi Osaka will return to the circuit at the end of this year – or at the latest in the first hours of 2024 –after what was a long period without his presence on the fields.
The last time Naomi played fully was in 2022 and, first by personal decision to take care of her mental health coupled with some injuries that had her in bad shape and, later due to maternity, the native of Tokyo, who reached position 1 of the WTA ranking, remained out of the circuit for a long time that for lovers of tennis and her game in particular already began with the countdown.
Brisbane, in Australia, is the place chosen by Osaka to put first again. The competition will take place between December 31 of this year and January 7, 2024.
Osaka’s message
“First tournament next year. I’m very excited, I haven’t been to Brisbane in a while“Osaka wrote on her Twitter account.
The Japanese will return to the circuit. (REUTERS)
His successful career and life off the field
Osaka is only 26 years old, but in her short experience as an elite athlete, she has already left her mark on tennis. Between 2018 and 2021 he won four Grand Slam titles. Two United States Opens and another two in Australia, positioned her as a player who could dominate the sport for many years, but her mental health began to be the issue that worried her most in her daily life and she came to get off the Roland Garros 2021 due to this situation. Besides, He made a documentary in which he addresses the concerns he has regarding the subject.
“I often feel that people do not attach much importance to the mental health of athletes and this is visible every time I watch a press conference or attend one. We often sit down and there are questions that we have been asked multiple times before or we are asked ones that make us doubt ourselves and I just don’t want to subject myself to people who make me doubt ourselves. I’ve seen many videos of athletes breaking down after a loss in a press conference and I know you have too. I think that whole situation of putting pressure on a person when they are down and I don’t understand the underlying reasoning. Not doing press conferences is not personal in my case against the tournament and there are several journalists who have interviewed me since I was young and I have a friendly relationship with most of them. However, if organizations think they can keep saying: ‘do the press conference or you will be sanctioned’ and continue to ignore the mental health of athletes as a central part of this cooperation, I will just have to laugh. In any case, I just hope that the amount I am fined for goes directly to charities that work with mental health. Kisses,” she argued in her then Naomi.
Osaka places a lot of importance on mental health. (AP)
For now, after a few first months of successful motherhood and with a physique that has left behind some injuries that bothered her last year, Naomi is ready to return to competition in 2024, which will have great competition in the WTA.
2023-11-10 12:35:15
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