Naomi Osaka skipped her post-match news conference at the French Open on Sunday as promised.
Osaka returned to Roland Garros after skipping the trip last time, turning in a mistake-filled 6-4, 7-6 victory over 63rd-ranked Patricia Maria Tig at Court Philippe Chatrier on Day 1 of the Grand Slam tournament.
Other results perhaps were more newsworthy — three-time major champion Angelique Kerber's third straight first-round loss in Paris, for example — but the No. 2-ranked Osaka's actions after her match were of interest. Santoro actually did raise the topic of the event's surface, noting that Osaka's Grand Slam titles only have come on hard courts.
Osaka wrote in a Twitter post Wednesday that she was not going to participate in the standard back-and-forth with the media in Paris — the sort of thing athletes in various sports do as a matter of course. She framed it as a mental health issue, saying that it creates self-doubt to have to answer questions after a loss.
"It's her own choice. I think she's capable of making her own choices and obviously she will do always what's best for her,'' Tig said."I think that's what's happening now. It's her choice of doing what she feels is best for her.'' Osaka next faces 102nd-ranked Ana Bogdan, who swept aside Italian qualifier Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-1, 6-3.
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