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13434329, This is a good argument why she should do interviews no one made here
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Wed Jun-02-21 06:59 PM
I think a lot of arguments about Mental Health miss the simple point that she shouldn't be allowed the competitive advantage of not having to do what everyone else has to do made here:

"Osaka doesn’t get to skip press conferences when everyone else has to do them. “You cannot allow a player to have an unfair advantage by not doing post-match press,” ESPN tennis analyst Rennae Stubbs told the New York Times. “It’s time consuming, so if one player is not doing that and others are, that is not equal.” Maybe there’s a conversation to be had about whether press conferences are, as Osaka put it, “outdated,” whether they put too much strain on athletes during the most stressful moments of their careers. But it’s not something that Osaka just gets to decide, out of the blue, right before a tournament starts."


"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/naomi-osakas-french-open-exit-a-good-faith-discussion.html


Now again, I think all of this is moot because she acted like a professional and withdraw from the tournament rather that tried to push that she should get a special exception.



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