Publisher's Synopsis
The young agile Professional tennis Player, Naomi Osaka, hails from Japan, garner titles and awards for herself through her unbeaten and self-resilience matches which has peck her at #1 in Women's Tennis Association (WTA) her tennis prowess has also earned her the only Asian female athlete to hold the highest level in singles. Won Grand Slam singles champion four times and was a defending champ at the Australian Open and the US Open. Her seven titles on the WTA Tour additionally include two at the Premier level. At the 2018 US Open and the 2019 Australian Open, Osaka won her initial two Grand Slam singles titles in consecutive Grand Slam competitions and is the primary player to accomplish this accomplishment since Jennifer Capriati in 2001. Following Serena Williams who held the Grand Slam Title until 2015, Noami Osaka became another recognized woman to win the title.
Though born in a small town in Haitian where her father is from she was migrated to the US, there she got trained in tennis from age 3. Her mother is a Japanese.
Her prominence came at age 16 when she outperformed past US Open hero Samantha Stosur in her WTA Tour debut at the 2014 Stanford Classic. Following two years, she got her first WTA last at the 2016 Pan Pacific Open in Japan to enter the best 50 of the WTA rankings. Osaka made her leap forward into the more elite class of ladies' tennis in 2018 when she won her first WTA title at the Indian Wells Open.
"I've often felt that people have no regard for athletes' mental health and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one," she wrote last week. "We're often sat there and asked questions that we've been asked multiple times before or asked questions that bring doubt into our minds, and I'm just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me."
The postgame session helps humanize athletes whose lifestyle might not always come through in tournament footage alone. Though understood that press conference is ostensibly important in tennis compare to other sports, athletes mental wellness should be considered in the clause.
Osaka had expressed she had "suffered long bouts of depression" since winning her first grand slam title at the 2018 US Open and didn't have any desire to address the press at the French Open. She didn't do as such after her first-round win, but was fined $15,000 and gotten a joint letter from the coordinators of the four grand slam tournaments threatening her with an potential ban. After a day the 23-year-old pulled out from Roland Garros.
Her numerous successes as the highest paid female athletes is discussed her, how she rose to such an enviable height and tournament won are also clearly stated.
If you want your child or yourself to succeed in tennis, this book is a must read.
