Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me in which job can you just tell your company that from now on you will not do a certain part of the job?
And there are rules and regulations that come with the job?

When you are the number #2 tennis player in the world and the highest paid female athlete in the world, they will make adjustments. Maybe Naomi didn’t handle this well, but neither did the French Open Leadership. Changes will be made. No major tournament wants this kind of press.

But the tournaments do want ratings. The fewer interviews, the fewer people know the major players or pay attention to the matches. The players won’t be happy with the long-term effects of such a move.

They can do interviews but not on game day.

People are most interested in athletes on game days. That’s when they have eyeballs on them. It’s their play on game days that makes them rich and famous.

This could be directly from a Cheryl Sandberg book. If a part of a job is unfair or emotionally exhausting, you shouldn't have to put up with it for a paycheck. At the very least, you can work with your boss to try and reach some sort of compromise.

Change happens when someone who has power within the system starts to demand it. Facebook didn't have parking spaces for pregnant women reserved close to the office front doors - they had to walk across a giant parking lot. Nobody had brought it up before because they weren't in positions to change it (or they did and weren't listened to). Cheryl realized this was an issue when she was pregnant, brought it up, and they put in the reserved spots. Naomi is raising the issue because she can.

People know the major tennis players through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and by watching them...play tennis. Nothing interesting ever comes out of the interviews, except for exhausted athletes repeating themselves and answering the same tired questions. It's an old and boring model.

This is terrible professional advice. Just god awful. What kind of occupation is never unfair or emotionally taxing? Almost all challenging jobs involve these elements sometimes. That’s life.

Also, I pay way less attention to tennis than I used to because the players don’t interest me as much as they used to. The less people know about or hear from the players, the less they will pay attention to their matches.

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And people wonder why the term snowflake is used. Give me a break with this crap.

You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

DP. Do you really think rape is supposed to be part of gymnastics? If you do, I’m sorry to have to tell you that you’re very, very confused.

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The "pointless" interviews are to promote the event and give event sponsors more impressions. Is this woman really this stupid? Entitled egomaniac.

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I wish tennis had fans like football, soccer, basketball,baseball, hockey…. Where she would have to deal with fans mocking her and taunting her. The media asks simple questions that she can answer or not and the never have the opportunity to press their questions

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Anonymous wrote:It's all so fake. Professional victim and race-baiting bull****. My guess is cooked up by her agents and/or Nike because she's such a bore.

Exactly. And according to her, her depression started AFTER SHE WON her first grand slam. BECAUSE she won. Lady, you've made $55 frickin' million. She is literally a professional victim.

+1. She has access to pretty much every resource in the world for her mental health care. If she were fighting for the mental health care of those who don’t, then I’d respect her efforts.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me in which job can you just tell your company that from now on you will not do a certain part of the job?
And there are rules and regulations that come with the job?

When you are the number #2 tennis player in the world and the highest paid female athlete in the world, they will make adjustments. Maybe Naomi didn’t handle this well, but neither did the French Open Leadership. Changes will be made. No major tournament wants this kind of press.

But the tournaments do want ratings. The fewer interviews, the fewer people know the major players or pay attention to the matches. The players won’t be happy with the long-term effects of such a move.

They can do interviews but not on game day.

People are most interested in athletes on game days. That’s when they have eyeballs on them. It’s their play on game days that makes them rich and famous.

This could be directly from a Cheryl Sandberg book. If a part of a job is unfair or emotionally exhausting, you shouldn't have to put up with it for a paycheck. At the very least, you can work with your boss to try and reach some sort of compromise.

Change happens when someone who has power within the system starts to demand it. Facebook didn't have parking spaces for pregnant women reserved close to the office front doors - they had to walk across a giant parking lot. Nobody had brought it up before because they weren't in positions to change it (or they did and weren't listened to). Cheryl realized this was an issue when she was pregnant, brought it up, and they put in the reserved spots. Naomi is raising the issue because she can.

People know the major tennis players through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and by watching them...play tennis. Nothing interesting ever comes out of the interviews, except for exhausted athletes repeating themselves and answering the same tired questions. It's an old and boring model.

This is terrible professional advice. Just god awful. What kind of occupation is never unfair or emotionally taxing? Almost all challenging jobs involve these elements sometimes. That’s life.

Also, I pay way less attention to tennis than I used to because the players don’t interest me as much as they used to. The less people know about or hear from the players, the less they will pay attention to their matches.

+1
And people wonder why the term snowflake is used. Give me a break with this crap.

You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

DP. Do you really think rape is supposed to be part of gymnastics? If you do, I’m sorry to have to tell you that you’re very, very confused.

People like you were told about the procedure through the vagina and they were like okay if it has to be done that way. Doctors, parents, officials… they all knew, cops were actually shown the procedure and they were like okay if the doctor says so.

Now youre like … welp abusive reporters are part of the game suck it up buttercup… just like gymnasts were told.

Just like Princess Diana was told… it’s part of the game being based by reporters.

Why people LIKE YOU are so weak you can’t stand up to authority is beyond me.

Be a lemming but not everybody is.

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You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

Not to veer too off-topic but isn't their medical science behind this? That's how he got away with it for so long, because it's a real treatment? I believe issue was he was practicing this without a glove, without another aide in the room, and going further than necessary...or something along those lines, right?

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Anonymous wrote:I wish tennis had fans like football, soccer, basketball,baseball, hockey…. Where she would have to deal with fans mocking her and taunting her. The media asks simple questions that she can answer or not and the never have the opportunity to press their questions

M^^^ here we go somebody advocating for abusing fans. You people are pathetic.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me in which job can you just tell your company that from now on you will not do a certain part of the job?
And there are rules and regulations that come with the job?

When you are the number #2 tennis player in the world and the highest paid female athlete in the world, they will make adjustments. Maybe Naomi didn’t handle this well, but neither did the French Open Leadership. Changes will be made. No major tournament wants this kind of press.

But the tournaments do want ratings. The fewer interviews, the fewer people know the major players or pay attention to the matches. The players won’t be happy with the long-term effects of such a move.

They can do interviews but not on game day.

People are most interested in athletes on game days. That’s when they have eyeballs on them. It’s their play on game days that makes them rich and famous.

This could be directly from a Cheryl Sandberg book. If a part of a job is unfair or emotionally exhausting, you shouldn't have to put up with it for a paycheck. At the very least, you can work with your boss to try and reach some sort of compromise.

Change happens when someone who has power within the system starts to demand it. Facebook didn't have parking spaces for pregnant women reserved close to the office front doors - they had to walk across a giant parking lot. Nobody had brought it up before because they weren't in positions to change it (or they did and weren't listened to). Cheryl realized this was an issue when she was pregnant, brought it up, and they put in the reserved spots. Naomi is raising the issue because she can.

People know the major tennis players through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and by watching them...play tennis. Nothing interesting ever comes out of the interviews, except for exhausted athletes repeating themselves and answering the same tired questions. It's an old and boring model.

This is terrible professional advice. Just god awful. What kind of occupation is never unfair or emotionally taxing? Almost all challenging jobs involve these elements sometimes. That’s life.

Also, I pay way less attention to tennis than I used to because the players don’t interest me as much as they used to. The less people know about or hear from the players, the less they will pay attention to their matches.

+1
And people wonder why the term snowflake is used. Give me a break with this crap.

You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

DP. Do you really think rape is supposed to be part of gymnastics? If you do, I’m sorry to have to tell you that you’re very, very confused.

People like you were told about the procedure through the vagina and they were like okay if it has to be done that way. Doctors, parents, officials… they all knew, cops were actually shown the procedure and they were like okay if the doctor says so.

Now youre like … welp abusive reporters are part of the game suck it up buttercup… just like gymnasts were told.

Just like Princess Diana was told… it’s part of the game being based by reporters.

Why people LIKE YOU are so weak you can’t stand up to authority is beyond me.

Be a lemming but not everybody is.

Sorry I stopped reading at the bolded. You don’t know me. It’s silly and presumptuous to pretend that you do. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

Not to veer too off-topic but isn't their medical science behind this? That's how he got away with it for so long, because it's a real treatment? I believe issue was he was practicing this without a glove, without another aide in the room, and going further than necessary...or something along those lines, right?

No. People just “believed the doctor” it was totally fake. AIDS were in the room, parents were in the room.

NOBODY HAD THE BALLS TO SAY WTF!

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Anonymous wrote:I wish tennis had fans like football, soccer, basketball,baseball, hockey…. Where she would have to deal with fans mocking her and taunting her. The media asks simple questions that she can answer or not and the never have the opportunity to press their questions

Tennis fans are mostly rich white boomers and they've done nothing but fawn over her to an exaggerated degree since she's been winning. This entire charade is so funny. Bravo Nike, what scam will the marketing dept. cook up next.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me in which job can you just tell your company that from now on you will not do a certain part of the job?
And there are rules and regulations that come with the job?

When you are the number #2 tennis player in the world and the highest paid female athlete in the world, they will make adjustments. Maybe Naomi didn’t handle this well, but neither did the French Open Leadership. Changes will be made. No major tournament wants this kind of press.

But the tournaments do want ratings. The fewer interviews, the fewer people know the major players or pay attention to the matches. The players won’t be happy with the long-term effects of such a move.

They can do interviews but not on game day.

People are most interested in athletes on game days. That’s when they have eyeballs on them. It’s their play on game days that makes them rich and famous.

This could be directly from a Cheryl Sandberg book. If a part of a job is unfair or emotionally exhausting, you shouldn't have to put up with it for a paycheck. At the very least, you can work with your boss to try and reach some sort of compromise.

Change happens when someone who has power within the system starts to demand it. Facebook didn't have parking spaces for pregnant women reserved close to the office front doors - they had to walk across a giant parking lot. Nobody had brought it up before because they weren't in positions to change it (or they did and weren't listened to). Cheryl realized this was an issue when she was pregnant, brought it up, and they put in the reserved spots. Naomi is raising the issue because she can.

People know the major tennis players through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and by watching them...play tennis. Nothing interesting ever comes out of the interviews, except for exhausted athletes repeating themselves and answering the same tired questions. It's an old and boring model.

This is terrible professional advice. Just god awful. What kind of occupation is never unfair or emotionally taxing? Almost all challenging jobs involve these elements sometimes. That’s life.

Also, I pay way less attention to tennis than I used to because the players don’t interest me as much as they used to. The less people know about or hear from the players, the less they will pay attention to their matches.

+1
And people wonder why the term snowflake is used. Give me a break with this crap.

You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

DP. Do you really think rape is supposed to be part of gymnastics? If you do, I’m sorry to have to tell you that you’re very, very confused.

People like you were told about the procedure through the vagina and they were like okay if it has to be done that way. Doctors, parents, officials… they all knew, cops were actually shown the procedure and they were like okay if the doctor says so.

Now youre like … welp abusive reporters are part of the game suck it up buttercup… just like gymnasts were told.

Just like Princess Diana was told… it’s part of the game being based by reporters.

Why people LIKE YOU are so weak you can’t stand up to authority is beyond me.

Be a lemming but not everybody is.

Sorry I stopped reading at the bolded. You don’t know me. It’s silly and presumptuous to pretend that you do. Grow up.

Okay Lemming.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wish tennis had fans like football, soccer, basketball,baseball, hockey…. Where she would have to deal with fans mocking her and taunting her. The media asks simple questions that she can answer or not and the never have the opportunity to press their questions

M^^^ here we go somebody advocating for abusing fans. You people are pathetic.

I don't think PP was advocating abuse. Just noting how coddled tennis players are at their events. In-person tennis fans are almost exclusively boring old well-mannered rich white people who trip over themselves to lick the shoes of Serena and Naomi. But we're to believe these two fabulously wealthy tennis players who are treated like deities by fans are actually somehow victims of racism and sexism????????

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Anonymous wrote:Tell me in which job can you just tell your company that from now on you will not do a certain part of the job?
And there are rules and regulations that come with the job?

When you are the number #2 tennis player in the world and the highest paid female athlete in the world, they will make adjustments. Maybe Naomi didn’t handle this well, but neither did the French Open Leadership. Changes will be made. No major tournament wants this kind of press.

But the tournaments do want ratings. The fewer interviews, the fewer people know the major players or pay attention to the matches. The players won’t be happy with the long-term effects of such a move.

They can do interviews but not on game day.

People are most interested in athletes on game days. That’s when they have eyeballs on them. It’s their play on game days that makes them rich and famous.

This could be directly from a Cheryl Sandberg book. If a part of a job is unfair or emotionally exhausting, you shouldn't have to put up with it for a paycheck. At the very least, you can work with your boss to try and reach some sort of compromise.

Change happens when someone who has power within the system starts to demand it. Facebook didn't have parking spaces for pregnant women reserved close to the office front doors - they had to walk across a giant parking lot. Nobody had brought it up before because they weren't in positions to change it (or they did and weren't listened to). Cheryl realized this was an issue when she was pregnant, brought it up, and they put in the reserved spots. Naomi is raising the issue because she can.

People know the major tennis players through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and by watching them...play tennis. Nothing interesting ever comes out of the interviews, except for exhausted athletes repeating themselves and answering the same tired questions. It's an old and boring model.

This is terrible professional advice. Just god awful. What kind of occupation is never unfair or emotionally taxing? Almost all challenging jobs involve these elements sometimes. That’s life.

Also, I pay way less attention to tennis than I used to because the players don’t interest me as much as they used to. The less people know about or hear from the players, the less they will pay attention to their matches.

+1
And people wonder why the term snowflake is used. Give me a break with this crap.

You unintelligent attitude is why a doctor was able to rape gymnasts without question.

Hey it’s part of the game, either do hip rotations through the vagina or get out of the sport.

DP. Do you really think rape is supposed to be part of gymnastics? If you do, I’m sorry to have to tell you that you’re very, very confused.

People like you were told about the procedure through the vagina and they were like okay if it has to be done that way. Doctors, parents, officials… they all knew, cops were actually shown the procedure and they were like okay if the doctor says so.

Now youre like … welp abusive reporters are part of the game suck it up buttercup… just like gymnasts were told.

Just like Princess Diana was told… it’s part of the game being based by reporters.

Why people LIKE YOU are so weak you can’t stand up to authority is beyond me.

Be a lemming but not everybody is.

Now reporters are abusive? Holy cow, you're just sick. You're absolutely disgusting with this analogy, and you know it. The two aren't remotely the same, and to suggest otherwise is grotesque.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish tennis had fans like football, soccer, basketball,baseball, hockey…. Where she would have to deal with fans mocking her and taunting her. The media asks simple questions that she can answer or not and the never have the opportunity to press their questions

M^^^ here we go somebody advocating for abusing fans. You people are pathetic.

I don't think PP was advocating abuse. Just noting how coddled tennis players are at their events. In-person tennis fans are almost exclusively boring old well-mannered rich white people who trip over themselves to lick the shoes of Serena and Naomi. But we're to believe these two fabulously wealthy tennis players who are treated like deities by fans are actually somehow victims of racism and sexism????????

this, tennis players are the most coddled athletes, but somehow answering basic softball questions was too much? I think PP is right and this is nike trying to make a boring athlete marketable

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wish tennis had fans like football, soccer, basketball,baseball, hockey…. Where she would have to deal with fans mocking her and taunting her. The media asks simple questions that she can answer or not and the never have the opportunity to press their questions

M^^^ here we go somebody advocating for abusing fans. You people are pathetic.

I don't think PP was advocating abuse. Just noting how coddled tennis players are at their events. In-person tennis fans are almost exclusively boring old well-mannered rich white people who trip over themselves to lick the shoes of Serena and Naomi. But we're to believe these two fabulously wealthy tennis players who are treated like deities by fans are actually somehow victims of racism and sexism????????

this, tennis players are the most coddled athletes, but somehow answering basic softball questions was too much? I think PP is right and this is nike trying to make a boring athlete marketable

+1. It certainly works well for Nike’s marketing department. They’ve been going hard on the SJW stuff the last few years.