Naomi Osaka admits feeling ungrateful towards tennis in the past year

It was a great comeback from Naomi Osaka against Coco Gauff as the Japanese player is finally back to playing some solid tennis. Ever since the whole Roland Garros fiasco, Osaka has been either not playing or playing poorly. After the match Osaka reflected on seeing things differently than before:

"I was wondering why was I so affected, I guess, like what made me not want to do media. I'm wondering if I was scared, because sometimes I would see headlines of like players losing and then the headline the next day would be like a collapse or they're not that great anymore."

A shift in her way of looking at things came from a lot of unfortunate things happened elsewhere in the world right now. Osaka elaborated on that by saying:

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"Seeing the state of the world, like how everything is in Haiti, Afghanistan right now is definitely really crazy. And for me to just be hitting a tennis ball in the United States right now and have people come and watch me play ... I would want to be myself in this situation rather than anyone else in the world."

She finished it off by saying that in the previous year she became ungrateful toward that:

"I'm not sure when along the way I started desensitizing that. Like it started not being like an accomplishment for me. So I felt like I was very ungrateful on that fact."

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