'NOTHING POSITIVE TO SAY'

Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Blasts Coverage of Her Emotional Wimbledon Exit

“Why push the narrative that I’m always sad?” former world tennis champion Naomi Osaka said.

Former world tennis champion Naomi Osaka issued a fiery takedown of sports media outlets and social media users for circulating footage of her appearing downtrodden at a press conference following her early exit from Wimbledon Friday. “Bro why is it every time I do a press conference after a loss the espns and blogs gotta clip it and put it up,” she posted to Threads Saturday. “Wtf, why don’t they clip my press conferences after I win? Like why push the narrative that I’m always sad?” Osaka had indeed appeared raw following her second-round loss to Russian player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, telling the post-match conference, “I’m just going to be a negative human being today” because “I have nothing positive to say about myself, which is something I’m working on.” In subsequent posts, she insisted she was already feeling like herself again. “Sure I was disappointed a couple hours ago, now I’m motivated to do better,” she wrote. “That’s human emotions. The way they clip me I feel like I should be fake happy all the time.”