Close to midnight Paris time on Wednesday, Naomi Osaka shocked the tennis world by announcing that she will not talk to the press at Roland Garros and is ready to pay fines for such a decision. The reason is that she wants to safeguard her mental well-being.
I’ve often felt that people have no regard for athletes’ mental health and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one. We’re often sat there and asked questions that we’ve been asked multiple times before or asked questions that bring doubt into our minds and I’m just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me.