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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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. [/quote]
Look, tournaments are a business. They need media to promote their business to sell tickets, to get networks to buy televising rights. She wants to win grandslams. This is the case of where RG can't win no matter how they handle it.
If they allow her the exception, they are neglecting lower-ranked players and making it unfair for them. So, 127 players don't get the "out of press free" card but one does? She is not up later after matches doing presser. The others are, hence she can get two hours extra sleep and recovery between matches. She can go straight to bed after the match without any other negative emotions, while the rest go to bed rethinking and more tired than Osaka?
How is that fair?
So, who is RG to choose? A player that handled this so poorly and put them in a spot of accommodating her and being unfair to all the other players, or accommodating the other players and those that promote their tournament around the world?
I don't see what other option RG organizers had.[/quote]

Exactly this. She's absolutely trying to game the system. I don't care if you all don't like "the system," but she's trying to get a better deal than the all of the other players, and it's simply not fair. By her own admission, it's to keep a better handle on her mental [i][b]game[/i][/b]. She handled this 100% wrong.

Not all jobs can handle depression and anxiety. Plenty of jobs would qualify as "I probably shouldn't do this job given my depression and anxiety." That may be where she finds herself, as she backs herself into a corner. But once she admitted this gives her a mental advantage, not JUST that she has depression and anxiety, it was game over in my opinion. [/quote]

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