Tuesday 17th August 2021
Tennis star finds no rest
Naomi Osaka tearfully interrupts PK
Naomi Osaka and the media no longer become friends. At her first press conference since May, the tennis superstar feels cornered. She needs a break. Her agent then attacks the journalist who asked her about her troubled relationship with the media.
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka had to interrupt her first press conference since May in tears. After Osaka had answered a local reporter’s question about her troubled relationship with media representatives as part of the WTA tournament in Cincinnati, she was carried away by her previous exchange of blows, emotionally charged during the next question about the earthquake disaster in Haiti and left the podium after a break, however, the media round continued.
“They don’t like dealing with the media very much, especially not in this format,” the reporter said in an exchange of blows with Osaka that lasted several minutes. “You indicated that there are better ways of doing this. My question was related to the fact that you have other interests besides tennis. You serve those interests with the platform that the media offers you. How do you think you can the best way to get both under one roof? ”
After much deliberation, Osaka had replied that she was “very different” from many other people in terms of her history and successes on the tennis court, and that she couldn’t help the fact that her tweets or things she said resulted in a lot of news articles .
“Appalling Behavior”
Your agent, Stuart Duguid, communicated laterthat the reporter “epitomizes” why “player-media relations are so strained at the moment”. “His manner was completely wrong and his only aim was to intimidate. Everyone will agree. A horrific behavior,” said Duguid, accusing the journalist of being self-indulgent: “The allegation that Naomi owes her success off the pitch to the media is a myth. ”
On Sunday, Osaka announced via Twitter that it would donate the prize money it won in Cincinnati to those affected by the earthquake in Haiti. “It really hurts to see all the devastation in Haiti,” the daughter of a Haitian and a Japanese woman wrote: “I know that the blood of our ancestors is strong and that we will continue to grow.”
When asked about the disaster in the Caribbean with almost 1,300 dead, Osaka promised even more support for the earthquake victims in Haiti after the break at the press conference. “I could do more and try to find out how I can use my energy,” said the four-time Grand Slam winner, who announced at the French Open, to the usual media rounds “out of self-care” with a view to her mental health dispense.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Osaka, the great Japanese hope, was once again extremely in focus. First as the last torchbearer who was allowed to light the Olympic flame, then sportily through the gold dream, which had already burst in the round of 16.
“I’m sad about how I did,” said the world number two in retrospect. “But I was happy with the experience, lighting the fire was fun. It will be a great memory for me.”
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