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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So proud of my sister, Naomi. [b]Will not. Can not. Be controlled.[/b] [/quote]
Precisely. When they can't control her, they'll villainize her. It has already begun. [/quote]

They don’t have to villainize  her, they just have to make her either follow the established rules or not play. [/quote]
When they can't control her, they'll villainize her. It has already begun.[/quote]

Yep...look at this thread. Naomi has been a model player and now when she takes a stand on her mental health she’s being a snowflake. We don’t know what’s going on her life and maybe something has changed that made her go in this direction. She had a stalker, she has been demeaned in the Japanese media via cartoons (a’la Michelle Obama and Serena Williams) and maybe all of that has taken a toll on how she interviews but not how she plays.

Yep, I bet if this was Maria Sharapova, this would be a totally different narrative.[/quote]

She said she's had depression since 2018. I can understand why - she was on the court then against Serena Williams at the US Open. Naomi at 20 won - a[i]nd basically ended Serena's chance at getting her recordholding title. This was not Naomi's fault, Serena hasn't been the same since she was pregnant. But she received a lot of unfair on-court boos for that.[/i]

For a person who has never had that kind of hatred thrown at her - it changed her mental state and its no wonder that going into press matches now triggers it.

https://theundefeated.com/features/naomi-osaka-wins-her-first-grand-slam-over-idol-serena-williams/

[i]As a result, Williams, 36, ended up switching from competitor mode to that of a mother, consoling the 20-year-old as she wept. It was an ugly win, and during her postmatch interview, Williams took to the mic to calm a loud, angry, booing crowd.

“I don’t want to do questions,” Williams said. “I just want to tell you guys she played well. This is her first Grand Slam. … Let’s not boo anymore.”[/i][/quote]

The way I understood it, the crowd was booing the referee that Serena had called, among other things, racist for ruling against her (even though she was playing against a mixed race, Black-Asian competitor, so the accusation was odd). Serena had thrown a tantrum on court a la McEnroe and the crowd, believing her in the right, booed the outcome.

That she then comforted Osaka doesn’t change the fact that it was [b]her[/b] behavior and claims of unfairness which led to the crowd’s angry disapproval of the outcome.[/quote]

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