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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you look at her overall wealth, very little of that comes from prize money from tennis.  She has a very lucrative deal with Nike and many other endorsements and partnerships.[/quote]

That's part of her problem. She let the endorsements and partnership distract her and [b]convince her she's above accountability.[/b][/quote] I disagree with the bolded.  [b]I think we're witnessing a mental health breakdown,[/b] and I think with that she's losing the ability to show up and perform in the way she is expected. I don't think she's choosing to do this to herself or has told herself that she doesent have any respnisibliy.   She made the right decisiont to take some time away from the sport.[/quote]

Thank you for making this point.  If you watched the press conference after the US Open loss, she was really struggling with her emotions and feelings.  She was actually articulating her thoughts regarding her mental health in real time in front of millions of people.  And, pulling her visor down and crying was the part of her having a breakdown.  It is unfortunate she did not announce a break from tennis after the French Open.  I don't necessarily blame Naomi, [b]I blame the people who are or are not advising her.[/b]  She needs to step away and tend to her mental health and not return until she is fully capable of playing at the level she once did or retire from the sport and focus on her health.[/quote]  +100 to the bolded.  And this after-match interview was not the first time she's cried and pulled her visor down to cover her eyes.   I watched her Netflix special and I've heard her talk about her familiy in interviews.   Her parents appear to be loving and supportive and she seems close with her sister.  But I can't help but wonder, what have they been saying to her?  And her trainers and coaches, what are they saying to her?  She seemed so alone,  fragile, and vulnerable in that interview yesterday.  And someone off to the side even tried to end it when it looked like she was frozen with fear, but she said she wanted to finish her though which is when she made the annoucment about taking some time away.  It was as if she made that deicsion by herself right in that moment.    I can't help but feel her "team" has really dropped the ball.[/quote]

The problem with a "team" is that they are conflicted -- they all have an interest in her continuing with tennis, otherwise there goes their meal ticket.  So not sure if she's getting good advice from anyone who cares about Naomi Osaka as a person, and not just Naomi Osaka the tennis player whose coattails we all want to ride to the top.  [/quote]

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