Osakas

By AFP TOKYO: Naomi Osaka has not played a tennis match since September and her withdrawal from next week's Australian Open has raised concerns that the former world…

Naomi Osaka’s 2022 French Open is over following a first-round loss. The players remaining in the tournament see and hear products of her frank discussion about anxiety and depression a…

Naomi Osaka had stunned the tennis world when she withdrew from the 2021 French Open after boycotting post-match media duties. A year, the sport is addressing the mental toll on athletes…

Three years ago, a reporter asked Sloane Stephens to point out a younger tennis player most fans might not have heard of yet, someone she thought could become a household name some day.…

Olga Danilovic has never experienced an atmosphere like the one that awaits her at Arthur Ashe Stadium for her second round match on Wednesday at noon at the U.S. Open against defending…

In her brief career, Osaka, 23, has come to represent so much beyond tennis, a sport in which she has already won four majors.The daughter of a Japanese mother and a Haitian father who was…

We can’t treat young vulnerable people as commodities, telling them to just follow the rules and not to express their concerns.…

Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka announced that she would withdraw from the French Open after she was fined and threatened with being disqualified for not speaking to media during the…

Japan's Naomi Osaka pulled out of the French Open on Monday after refusing to attend the mandatory post-match press conferences and revealing she had been suffering from bouts of depression…

By PTI NEW YORK: A few years ago, a star athlete dropping out of a major tennis tournament over mental health issues might have been seen as a sign of weakness.…