Naomi Osaka - Shy was yesterday
Naomi Osaka has set out to develop her personality during the break caused by the corona pandemic. First stop: take the shyness away.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: May 15, 2020, 04:46 pm
Anyone who has seen Naomi Osaka at press conferences or award ceremonies knows that the Japanese woman keeps her answers rather short, her reluctance does not appear to be played, but due to her nature. So even in the greatest sporting moment of her career, the triumph at the 2018 US Open, she stoically endured that Serena Williams, whom she had defeated, performed a show in conjunction with the President of USTA that neither of the two women has done honor.
Osaka endured this with dignity, took her trophy and winner's check and celebrated the first major victory with her team. And their word donations continued to be scarce. Why? Because she's shy by nature. And that is exactly the end, the current world tenth announced on Twitter, then in an interview with CNN.
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"I'm done with being shy," Osaka wrote. "It's really a waste of time. I could have shared so many of my ideas, had conversations with so many different people. So many things I could have learned. But no. I am here and set my limits myself. "
She would regret many things before going to bed at night, Osaka told CNN. And most of all, that she rarely says what she thinks.
There is also a certain natural shyness of big names, as Osaka revealed in an interview with the WTA website in 2018. That's how she would have met Jay-Z once. “He started talking to me, but I got completely nervous and only got one-word answers. Suddenly he asked me: 'Are you shy?' I said 'yes'. And that was the end of the conversation. ”Something like this should no longer happen to Naomi Osaka, who has already been decorated with two major titles.