{"id":663346,"date":"2021-08-19T20:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=663346"},"modified":"2021-08-19T20:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:21:48","slug":"naomi-osaka-discusses-emotional-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/naomi-osaka-discusses-emotional-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka Discusses Emotional Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnaomi-osaka-discusses-emotional-press-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=663346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1334901652.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Naomi Osaka\u2019s return to the press conference format could not have gone the way she expected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday \u2014 in her first press conference since withdrawing from the French Open in May \u2014 Osaka was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/naomi-osaka-breaks-down-in-tears-at-press-conference-after-question-from-bully-reporter\">asked<\/a>&nbsp;by Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Paul Daugherty how she balances her&nbsp;media obligations, considering her platform. Osaka was able to answer, but began to cry, forcing her to step away for five minutes in order to compose herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since withdrawing from the French Open, Osaka has been open about dealing with depression and anxiety, which she says began after her 2018 U.S. Open victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After defeating Coco Gauff at the Western &amp; Southern Open on Wednesday, Osaka shared her thoughts on her first press conference in months and her reaction to the question that left her in tears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHonestly, I was thinking about this since the last time I sat here,\u201d Osaka <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/naomi-osaka-reflects-spotlight-win-coco-gauff-western\/story?id=79532349\">said<\/a>, per ABC News<\/span><span>. \u201cI was wondering why I was so affected, I guess. Like what made me not want to do media in the first place. And then I was thinking, I was wondering if I was scared because sometimes I would see headlines of players losing and then the headline the next day would be like \u2018a collapse\u2019 or \u2018they\u2019re not that great anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo then I was thinking, me waking up every day, for me, I should feel like I\u2019m winning, you know,\u201d she continued. \u201cLike, the choice to go out there and play, to go see fans, that people come out and watch me play, that itself is an accomplishment. I\u2019m not sure when along the way I started desensitizing that. It started not being an accomplishment for me. So I felt like I was very ungrateful on that fact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Osaka spoke about her difficulties through COVID, including the lack of social interaction the pandemic has created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t know. I think definitely this whole COVID thing was really stressful with the bubbles and not seeing people and not having the interactions,\u201d Osaka <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/naomi-osaka-reflects-spotlight-win-coco-gauff-western\/story?id=79532349\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Wednesday. \u201cBut I think, like, I guess seeing the state of the world, how everything is in Haiti, how everything is in Afghanistan right now, is definitely really crazy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAnd for me to just be hitting a tennis ball in the United States right now, and have people come and watch me play, is, I don\u2019t know. I would want to be myself in this situation rather than anyone else in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.384328358209\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3 &#8220;I&#8217;ve been thinking about this since the last time I sat here&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Naomi Osaka explains her thoughts on press conferences and media interaction after defeating Coco Gauff at the Western &amp; Southern Open in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1428247204083519492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Over the weekend, Osaka said that she would be donating her winnings from the tournament to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, her father\u2019s home country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cReally hurts to see all the devastation that\u2019s going on in Haiti, and I feel like we really can\u2019t catch a break,\u201d Osaka announced on Twitter. \u201cI\u2019m about to play a tournament this week and I\u2019ll give all the prize money to relief efforts for Haiti. I know our ancestors blood is strong we\u2019ll keep rising[.]\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.504132231405\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Really hurts to see all the devastation that\u2019s going on in Haiti, and I feel like we really can\u2019t catch a break. I\u2019m about to play a tournament this week and I\u2019ll give all the prize money to relief efforts for Haiti. I know our ancestors blood is strong we\u2019ll keep rising \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf9\u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffe<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NaomiOsaka\u5927\u5742\u306a\u304a\u307f (@naomiosaka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naomiosaka\/status\/1426679983532122126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Osaka defeated Gauff in three sets on Wednesday&nbsp;<span>and plays Jil Teichmann of Switzerland Thursday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Osaka participated at the Tokyo Olympics as a member of Team Japan, surprisingly losing to Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic in the third round.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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