Tennis champion Naomi Osaka makes brutal admission after Wimbledon loss then turns on media
Osaka is an Australian Open and US Open champion but, after winning the Australian Open in 2021 and later taking time out to give birth, the former world No.1 has failed to progress past the third round of a major tournament.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Naomi Osaka devastated after Wimbledon loss.
Her bid to reach the last-16 of a slam again failed overnight at Wimbledon, after she surrendered a one-set lead to go down 3-6 6-4 6-4 to former French Open finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
And in the press conference that followed Osaka cut a sad and dejected figure, where she was brutally honest.
'Honestly, right now I'm just really upset,' she said after the match.
'I'm just gonna be a negative human being today.
'I'm so sorry. I have nothing positive to say about myself, which is something I'm working on.
'It was my daughter's birthday. I was happy about that this week. Other than that, today, I'm just constantly replaying the match.
'I think if I look back on it, I can be happy with how I played. I started getting a lot more comfortable on grass.
'It's because I actually thought I could play well in general. Not saying I didn't play well, but make a deep run here. I wanted to do better than I did before. Also, I felt like I was trying so hard. I low-key busted a vein in my hand.'
'I feel like, while I still have the opportunity to try to (compete), I want to.
'Even though I get very upset when I lose, but I think that's my competitive nature.'
Osaka was also in tears at the French Open when she lost to Paula Badosa in the third set ... and after the Wimbledon loss she was asked to compare the two experiences.
'I think in Paris ... when I sat here, I was very emotional. Now I don't feel anything,' she said.
'I guess I prefer to feel nothing than everything.'
The press conference went viral where it was splashed across social media and various media outlets.
But the 27-year-old later fumed about how she was portrayed.
'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 said on X (formerly Twitter).
'WTF, why don't they clip my press conferences after I win? Like, why push the narrative that I'm always sad?
'Sure I was disappointed a couple hours ago, now I'm motivated to do better. That's human emotions. The way they clip me I feel like I should be fake happy all the time.'
Osaka is one of the most marketable players on the tournament and has strong army of fans across the world, particularly in Japan (who she represents) and in the US (where she lives).
And after the press conference, fans reached out.
'I am sending Naomi Osaka so much love. I hate to see her looking and feeling down. It appears she hasn't been herself in a while and that's so hard to see,' one fan said.
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The grass was different. "But I enjoyed it so much watching Roger play. I never played against him in an official match. But in the other way, how they played, it was amazing. "About the games lost, this is whatever. I'm not looking at these kind of records. I know that everything can change very quickly from one round to the other." The world No.1 is yet to have his serve broken, has faced just eight break points and has spent only five hours and 23 minutes on court so far, which is six minutes less than his French Open final defeat by Carlos Alcaraz last month. However, the players he has faced to date are ranked 95, 93 and 52 with little experience at the All England Club. He now meets a Wimbledon veteran, former semi-finalist and 19th seed Grigor Dimitrov. It is, though, 11 years since the Bulgarian reached the last four and he has not made a quarter-final here since. Dimitrov has retired from matches through injury at the last three grand slams but looks fit enough now and reached the fourth round with a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-0) win over Austria's Sebastian Ofner. The Italian renaissance continued with 22nd-seed Flavio Cobolli dispatching Czech 15th seed Jakub Mensik 6-2 6-4 6-2, and he'll next face Croatia's 36-year-old former finalist Marin Cilic, who continued his own revival after multiple knee surgeries with a 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-4 victory over Spain's Jaume Munar. A third Italian man in the last-16 will be Lorenzo Sonego, who finally prevailed in the longest epic of the championships after five hours and four minutes, defeating American Brandon Nakashima 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (12-10) 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 7-6 (12-10). He'll play another American in the last-16 in the shape of big-serving left-hander Ben Shelton, who beat lucky loser Marton Fucsovics 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-2. Jannik Sinner has maintained his ruthless progress towards a first Wimbledon final, consigning Pedro Martinez to the same merciless fate that Luca Nardi and Australian Aleksandar Vukic suffered in the opening two rounds. Sinner beat the Spaniard 6-2 6-3 6-1 in Saturday's third round, bringing to just 17 the number of games he has conceded in three matches during which he hasn't conceded a set. That is the smoothest start to a Wimbledon men's singles in the Open era, eclipsing Roger Federer, the sainted darling of Centre Court, who had lost 19 games at this stage in 2004. Jan Kodes, a semi-finalist in 1972, also lost 17 games, but the Czech also lost a set, and was one-set all in the opening round against Pato Rodriguez. Sinner, who has barely broken sweat, even during the heatwave start to the championships, said of Federer: "I watched matches of him and the classics, the all-time classics. "The tennis was a little bit different in a way of more serve and volleys back in the days. The grass was different. "But I enjoyed it so much watching Roger play. I never played against him in an official match. But in the other way, how they played, it was amazing. "About the games lost, this is whatever. I'm not looking at these kind of records. I know that everything can change very quickly from one round to the other." The world No.1 is yet to have his serve broken, has faced just eight break points and has spent only five hours and 23 minutes on court so far, which is six minutes less than his French Open final defeat by Carlos Alcaraz last month. However, the players he has faced to date are ranked 95, 93 and 52 with little experience at the All England Club. He now meets a Wimbledon veteran, former semi-finalist and 19th seed Grigor Dimitrov. It is, though, 11 years since the Bulgarian reached the last four and he has not made a quarter-final here since. Dimitrov has retired from matches through injury at the last three grand slams but looks fit enough now and reached the fourth round with a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-0) win over Austria's Sebastian Ofner. The Italian renaissance continued with 22nd-seed Flavio Cobolli dispatching Czech 15th seed Jakub Mensik 6-2 6-4 6-2, and he'll next face Croatia's 36-year-old former finalist Marin Cilic, who continued his own revival after multiple knee surgeries with a 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-4 victory over Spain's Jaume Munar. A third Italian man in the last-16 will be Lorenzo Sonego, who finally prevailed in the longest epic of the championships after five hours and four minutes, defeating American Brandon Nakashima 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (12-10) 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 7-6 (12-10). He'll play another American in the last-16 in the shape of big-serving left-hander Ben Shelton, who beat lucky loser Marton Fucsovics 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-2. Jannik Sinner has maintained his ruthless progress towards a first Wimbledon final, consigning Pedro Martinez to the same merciless fate that Luca Nardi and Australian Aleksandar Vukic suffered in the opening two rounds. Sinner beat the Spaniard 6-2 6-3 6-1 in Saturday's third round, bringing to just 17 the number of games he has conceded in three matches during which he hasn't conceded a set. That is the smoothest start to a Wimbledon men's singles in the Open era, eclipsing Roger Federer, the sainted darling of Centre Court, who had lost 19 games at this stage in 2004. Jan Kodes, a semi-finalist in 1972, also lost 17 games, but the Czech also lost a set, and was one-set all in the opening round against Pato Rodriguez. Sinner, who has barely broken sweat, even during the heatwave start to the championships, said of Federer: "I watched matches of him and the classics, the all-time classics. "The tennis was a little bit different in a way of more serve and volleys back in the days. The grass was different. "But I enjoyed it so much watching Roger play. I never played against him in an official match. But in the other way, how they played, it was amazing. "About the games lost, this is whatever. I'm not looking at these kind of records. I know that everything can change very quickly from one round to the other." The world No.1 is yet to have his serve broken, has faced just eight break points and has spent only five hours and 23 minutes on court so far, which is six minutes less than his French Open final defeat by Carlos Alcaraz last month. However, the players he has faced to date are ranked 95, 93 and 52 with little experience at the All England Club. He now meets a Wimbledon veteran, former semi-finalist and 19th seed Grigor Dimitrov. It is, though, 11 years since the Bulgarian reached the last four and he has not made a quarter-final here since. Dimitrov has retired from matches through injury at the last three grand slams but looks fit enough now and reached the fourth round with a 6-3 6-4 7-6 (7-0) win over Austria's Sebastian Ofner. The Italian renaissance continued with 22nd-seed Flavio Cobolli dispatching Czech 15th seed Jakub Mensik 6-2 6-4 6-2, and he'll next face Croatia's 36-year-old former finalist Marin Cilic, who continued his own revival after multiple knee surgeries with a 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-4 victory over Spain's Jaume Munar. A third Italian man in the last-16 will be Lorenzo Sonego, who finally prevailed in the longest epic of the championships after five hours and four minutes, defeating American Brandon Nakashima 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (12-10) 7-6 (7-2) 3-6 7-6 (12-10). He'll play another American in the last-16 in the shape of big-serving left-hander Ben Shelton, who beat lucky loser Marton Fucsovics 6-3 7-6 (7-4) 6-2.
