Osaka on French Open interviews: No comment

You're dead wrong about press conferences being useless, and your argument probably won't get much support from people whose jobs and lives is/was to interview athletes. Fans want the human interest and interaction. Without that, sports might as well just be computer simulations.
Many of the questions are dumb, and many of the responses are cliches; that's true, but at least the paying fans have some connection with the players. Social media has and continues to change how players and fans interact.
The fact remains that without fans, there are no professional sports without people willing to fork over the money to see people play and people to buy whatever is being advertised.

 

The paying fans are not getting the connection from these press conferences. Just my opinion.

Nobody is disputing this. The post match press conferences are irrelevant to that fact.

 

It is for her. She is literally telling you that the post match press conferences contribute negatively to her mental health. You refuse to accept that.

 

When you become the best in the world at what you do maybe that comparison will work.

She gets paid if she wins, there’s no guaranteed salary. It’s not her fault people like you are so bitter.

 

She earns that perk, it is not given to her.

 

yes.

 

Were people as angry at Lynch as they appear to be at her?

Marshawn Lynch Doesn't Need to Talk to Anybody

 

Yes, the old white media were furious.

 

Her anxiety must have been off the charts posing for these photos, being interviewed for this article (be it Zoom). She certainly looks nervous and upset.

This from the article, published in February: So it is notable that Naomi Osaka is indeed fearless and coolheaded, able to calmly handle the media’s unfair obsession with her and her idol Serena Williams ...

I guess the writer goofed that up, or ....

I don't want to call her a hypocrite, but .......

(Waiting for JC to bust out his old white guy shtick)