*** Official Tennis Thread Pt. 2****

[realmiscer]

osaka withdraws LOL

https://www.tsn.ca/naomi-osaka-withd...open-1.1647765

[ohiostate124]

Lol

[iabs]

osaka withdraws LOL

https://www.tsn.ca/naomi-osaka-withd...open-1.1647765

These athletes do have a lot of pressure and any sensible person can sympathize with them, HOWEVER...so does the average Joe/Jane trying to survive on a daily basis while getting paid a drop in the bucket in comparison to these multi-millionaire young athletes.

The Lebrons, Kaepernicks, Williams and Osakas of this clown world can get fuked for all I care.

[umop3pisdn]

Spewin for the poor git who had a bet on her.

[srom12]

Lmao.

[Jayarbie]

Osaka is going to win this battle. she is one of the most popular and marketable players on the tour (mens or womens). By withdrawing and calling out her mental health issues, she has successfully made the tournaments look like the heartless bad guys. I expect this policy to be changed by Wimbledon.

[ohiostate124]

Damn. Sloan Stephens is almost unrecognizable.

[Kaliconic]

I think in Osaka I may have finally found someone more dislikable than Serena Williams. Serena is incredibly obnoxious and the media cult around her is even worse, but there's just something so pathetic about a millionaire athlete posing as an oppressed victim because they have to answer a few media questions.

[TokenV]

Osaka is going to win this battle. she is one of the most popular and marketable players on the tour (mens or womens). By withdrawing and calling out her mental health issues, she has successfully made the tournaments look like the heartless bad guys. I expect this policy to be changed by Wimbledon.

what policy?

that you have to attend press conferences?

gtfo

[ohiostate124]

Did they do something to the courts? Looks different than I remember. Seems to be lower bouncing from what I’m reading.

[WestAfrica]

I think in Osaka I may have finally found someone more dislikable than Serena Williams. Serena is incredibly obnoxious and the media cult around her is even worse, but there's just something so pathetic about a millionaire athlete posing as an oppressed victim because they have to answer a few media questions.

Why does it matter if they make millions of dollars? So what you are saying is that if someone suffers from depression (which many Americans do) they should just shut up and take it if they make millions of dollars?

[TokenV]

Why does it matter if they make millions of dollars? So what you are saying is that if someone suffers from depression (which many Americans do) they should just shut up and take it if they make millions of dollars?

ever since that stunt she pulled at the WTA Cincinnati I can't stand her

brb I forfeit my semi against Mertens cause protest
brb nah I'll play
brb brb
worst part was the organisation allowing her to rescedule the game one-sided

if you don't want to play tennis then quit, no need to constantly search for attention

[Droopdx]

So fragile you can’t answer a couple questions about tennis? lol

[umop3pisdn]

Why does it matter if they make millions of dollars? So what you are saying is that if someone suffers from depression (which many Americans do) they should just shut up and take it if they make millions of dollars?

Wait when they enter a tournament don't the players sign a contract which includes media obligations? So she basically agreed to do press conferences by signing the tournament contract only to then come out and declare she's not doing them?

If she suffers from depression maybe she should look inwardly at the way she lives her life and not at journalists asking tough questions.

[WestAfrica]

Wait when they enter a tournament don't the players sign a contract which includes media obligations? So she basically agreed to do press conferences by signing the tournament contract only to then come out and declare she's not doing them?

If she suffers from depression maybe she should look inwardly at the way she lives her life and not at journalists asking tough questions.

I’m aware that part of playing tennis is dealing with the median

Lold at “look inwardly at the way she lives her life”. Depression affects everyone differently. You are making it seem like shes specifically doing something to make herself misrable. There are plenty of athletes who don’t talk to the media and they barely get anything for it ie. Beastmode, Kawhi, Kyrie. After they don’t talk they still go on to play. Its not like Osaka said I’m not speaking and not playing, she litetally left the tourney that she was top 1-2 favored to win.

[umop3pisdn]

I’m aware that part of playing tennis is dealing with the median

Lold at “look inwardly at the way she lives her life”. Depression affects everyone differently. You are making it seem like shes specifically doing something to make herself misrable. There are plenty of athletes who don’t talk to the media and they barely get anything for it ie. Beastmode, Kawhi, Kyrie. After they don’t talk they still go on to play. Its not like Osaka said I’m not speaking and not playing, she litetally left the tourney that she was top 1-2 favored to win.

Maybe she is doing something specifically to make herself miserable. First thing that comes to mind is the fact she is always playing the victim. She's all sweet to use the media to call out racism and perceived injustices of the world but when the media wants to talk about her tennis, the reason she has such a huge platform in the first place, she tells them she's too depressed to do so even though she signed a contract. Now yet again she is the victim and made the tennis media and slam organisers out to be the oppressors. They pay her very fking handsomely to go and sit for 10 minutes and talk tennis.

[Kaliconic]

Why does it matter if they make millions of dollars? So what you are saying is that if someone suffers from depression (which many Americans do) they should just shut up and take it if they make millions of dollars?

Shut up and take what? A few questions from the media? It's literally part of her job. Her easy, ludicrously high-paying job. If she can't handle that, then she needs to quit tennis. Pure and simple. No one would have a problem with her saying she can't handle a few questions and then quitting the sport. It's her trying to have her cake and eat it too that's absurd, all while acting like she's a put-upon victim, when really she's just an entitled, bratty child.

[mkx1775]

She should have pulled a Beast Mode.

[srom12]

Osaka is going to win this battle. she is one of the most popular and marketable players on the tour (mens or womens). By withdrawing and calling out her mental health issues, she has successfully made the tournaments look like the heartless bad guys. I expect this policy to be changed by Wimbledon.

Get off Twitter and ESPN. She only withdrew because of damage control. If she continued to refuse media appearances she would’ve been disqualified anyways. If she reversed her move she’d look stupid.

[Jayarbie]

https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/...-mental-health

Everyone involved is already backtracking. I guarantee she won't have to do press conferences by Wimbledon.

[TokenV]

lolled at this tweet

too bad it's removed now, under pressure no doubt

this is just some light-hearted banter imo, don't see any harm in it

but then again I'm not Gen Z

[skinnyfat88]

15k seemed like a lot.

if they made it 5k or less she prob just would've just paid it and said what she wanted about mental health and the press over twitter.

[WestAfrica]

lolled at this tweet

too bad it's removed now, under pressure no doubt

this is just some light-hearted banter imo, don't see any harm in it

but then again I'm not Gen Z

Cliffs

[TokenV]

Cliffs

speaks for itself, but here you go

- Osaka refuses to talk to press
- Roland-Garros then tweets pics of Nadal, Nishikori, Sabalenka and Gauff at their press talk
- caption "they understood the assignment"
- said tweet is quickly removed, no doubt after some backlash
- I lolled

[CheekyCuntt]

omgg that tweet was so incredibly insensitive I am shook. How dare yOUUUU

Not only is this offensive but incredibly misogynistic and racist! They are projecting their white superiority on a player of colour!

#RolandGarrosIsOverParty


On a srs note osaka deserved this mockery for her snowflakey attitude

[ohiostate124]

Just noticed that Rafa is doing a bit of a comb over now.

[euron]

i quite like osaka's game and personality but i cant be bothered too much about the press drama

the whole thing is quite dumb

as mentioned above players are contractually obliged to do pressers. If you dont feel like doing them just dont go and take the fine like Serena and Novak have done before.


Also I am pretty sure that if a player went up to the tournament staff and told them about mental health issues and how dealing with the press makes it worse that they would 100% be more inclined to either let her skip them without repercussions or find some other solutions. just dropping it on your insta that you're not doing pressers is pretty dumb

that said i wish her the best and hope to see more of her tennis later bc shes a great player


RG is so scuffed this year. Tsitsipas or Zverev as finalist vs Djokovic / Nadal and the only decent candidate left on the womens side is Swiatek. I wouldnt mind Iga winning though, she's a great clay court player.

[Jayarbie]

i quite like osaka's game and personality but i cant be bothered too much about the press drama

the whole thing is quite dumb

as mentioned above players are contractually obliged to do pressers. If you dont feel like doing them just dont go and take the fine like Serena and Novak have done before.

That's exactly what she did, and she said she would accept the fines and implore the WTA or whoever the fine was going to to donate it to mental health awareness charities. They responded by mocking her on Twitter and threatening to default her, so instead, she quit and divulged her issues to make them look like fools.

Also I am pretty sure that if a player went up to the tournament staff and told them about mental health issues and how dealing with the press makes it worse that they would 100% be more inclined to either let her skip them without repercussions or find some other solutions. just dropping it on your insta that you're not doing pressers is pretty dumb

that said i wish her the best and hope to see more of her tennis later bc shes a great player


RG is so scuffed this year. Tsitsipas or Zverev as finalist vs Djokovic / Nadal and the only decent candidate left on the womens side is Swiatek. I wouldnt mind Iga winning though, she's a great clay court player.

I love Swiatek. I think she is going to be the next dominant player on the women's side, or at least a rival with Osaka if she gets her issues resolved.

On the men's side, I like that Alcaraz dude as an up and coming player. And Sinner. Unfortunately, they are both in the top half with Djokovic, Federer, and Nadal (and both in Nadal's quarter, so tough luck this year...). The draw is so ridiculously lopsided.

[TokenV]

That's exactly what she did, and she said she would accept the fines and implore the WTA or whoever the fine was going to to donate it to mental health awareness charities. They responded by mocking her on Twitter and threatening to default her, so instead, she quit and divulged her issues to make them look like fools.

sure, she made thém look like fools...

[skinnyfat88]

Also I am pretty sure that if a player went up to the tournament staff and told them about mental health issues and how dealing with the press makes it worse that they would 100% be more inclined to either let her skip them without repercussions or find some other solutions. just dropping it on your insta that you're not doing pressers is pretty dumb

Agreed but I'm not sure if those discussions happened and were shot down or not.
My hunch is that she'd have more luck at a major other than the French Open being able to persuade the tournament to give her leniency/negotiate a fine a lot less than 15k.

But I also think it might not have been a coincidence this happened at the French Open. Their media rubs people the wrong way sometimes if my understanding is correct.