Osaka on French Open interviews: No comment

Having covered pro tennis, the real problem is abusive fucking adults from parents to agents to coaches to tournament organizers to sponsors making a buck off of BLOODY FUCKING CHILDREN.

 

No sympathy. Life isn't a buffet. She's happy to take the adulation and cash the checks when things are going her way but wants to sull up when they're not.
Too bad. The rest of us don't get to live our lives that way.

 

I'm not sure why some of you dickheads can't understand the following:

"I am not a natural public speaker and get huge waves of anxiety before I speak to the world's media."

 

She doesn't get that huge cash from answering asinine questions at asinine, unnecessary post-match press conferences. She gets it from winning big tournaments.

Man, some of you VASTLY overestimate the importance of those idiotic pressers.
The world would revolve just fine without them.

 

Ultimately though, as a casual consumer of tennis, I just want to see the best players play - I don't really give a shit if they do press conferences after. The fact that this escalated to the point that the federation said "do pressers or go home," and she went home, reflects poorly on them. As others have pointed out - nobody gives a shit that NFL players often don't do pressers, or don't give coherent answers beyond "I just wanted to helped my team win out there." The next interesting Derek Jeter quote will be the first. If star players don't want to do pressers, don't make them do them. Pretty sure what they do on the court is why people watch, or don't.

 

Y'all just made my point. She wants the perks of the lifestyle but can't stoop to do the 15 minutes or so of drudgery to go along with it before heading back to the 5-star suite.

 

Oh for fuck's sake.

 

The 15 minutes is asinine. And worthless. See the Gauff question.

 

I don't disagree at all. Still, too bad. There are parts of my job that are asinine, but I still have to do them.

 

You couldn't make this shit up.
French Open boss slammed in 'cowardly' Naomi Osaka fallout