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The last time people saw Naomi Osaka at a tennis tournament, she cut off her news conference after a first-round loss at Wimbledon last month, saying, “I feel like I’m about to cry” and leaving the podium.
Before she returns to competition next week in Toronto in the lead-up to her United States Open title defense, she said she “wanted to get some things off my chest.”
Osaka, 21, did it in the ever-modern format of a screenshot of the Notes app posted on her social media channels, acknowledging on Wednesday that these have been the “worst months of my life.