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Speaker 1: Jum mission with Joins and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: We spoke about this last week, with Naomi Saka saying

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Speaker 2: that she was not going to be doing postmatch interviews

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Speaker 2: after her games. Her matches are the French Open at

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Speaker 2: Roland Garross. She has said, I often feel that people

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Speaker 2: have no regard for athletes and their mental health, and

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Speaker 2: this rings true whenever I see a press conference or

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Speaker 2: par take in one. We're often asked questions that bring

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Speaker 2: doubt into our minds, and I'm not going to subject

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Speaker 2: myself to people that doubt me. I believe the whole

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Speaker 2: situation is kicking a person while there down, and I

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Speaker 2: don't understand the reasoning behind it. She said, I know

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Speaker 2: I'm going to be fine. Twenty thousand dollars, why not

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Speaker 2: give that money to a mental health charity. Lots of

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Speaker 2: interesting reaction to this in the last few days, and

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Speaker 2: she's been slammed my many people to the point where

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Speaker 2: she has now withdrawn from the French Open.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: She said these words this morning.

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Speaker 2: This isn't a situation over imagined or intended when I

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Speaker 2: posted a few days ago. I think the best thing

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Speaker 2: for the tournament, the other players, in my well being

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Speaker 2: is that I draw so that everyone can go back

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Speaker 2: to focusing on the tennis. I never wanted to be

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Speaker 2: a distraction, and I accept that my timing was not

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Speaker 2: ideal and my message could have been clearer. More importantly,

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Speaker 2: I would never trivialize mental health or use the term lightly,

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Speaker 2: she said. The truth is I've suffered long bouts of

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Speaker 2: depression since the US Open in twenty eighteen, and I've

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Speaker 2: had a really hard time coping with that. Anyone that

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Speaker 2: knows me knows I'm introverted, and anyone that has seen

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Speaker 2: me at the tournaments will notice some often wearing headphones

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Speaker 2: that dull my social anxiety. Where she talks about she's

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Speaker 2: had depressions since the US Open in twenty eighteen. This

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Speaker 2: was the match where she won the final against Serena Williams.

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Speaker 2: She ended the match in tears despite of victory, her

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Speaker 2: first victory in a major tournament like that, because there'd

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Speaker 2: been tantrums from Serena Williams and that had whipped the

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Speaker 2: New York crowd into a frenzy. The reason she's saying

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Speaker 2: I do actually have I don't want to trivialize mental health,

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Speaker 2: but I do have some mental health issues is because

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Speaker 2: that's been a lot of the criticism that's been thrown

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Speaker 2: at her in recent days.

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Speaker 1: Good old Piers Morgan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's laid into her, saying one thing is very clear,

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Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with mental health. What Osaka

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Speaker 2: really means is she doesn't want to face the media

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Speaker 2: if she hasn't played well because the beastly journalists might

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Speaker 2: actually dare to criticize her performance, and she's not going

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Speaker 2: to subject herself to quote people that doubt me. Then

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Speaker 2: he says she's an arrogance, spoiled brat, etcetera, etcetera.

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Speaker 3: He says he didn't drag Meghane.

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Speaker 2: How interesting, because this is what he said, Well he did.

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Speaker 2: This is straight out of the Meghan and how He

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Speaker 2: playbook of wanting to have the world's largest cake and

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Speaker 2: eating it by exploiting the media for ruthlessly commercial self promotion,

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Speaker 2: but using mental health to silence any media criticism.

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Speaker 4: Let it go, dude, let it go. I don't understand

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Speaker 4: why they interviewed tennis player. I'm not much of a

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Speaker 4: tennis fan, but my mum watches it and when she's watching.

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Speaker 3: I go why. I don't care if they lose the game.

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Speaker 3: They lose the game, so be a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people do care. A lot of people.

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Speaker 2: These are the heroes or these are the they follow

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Speaker 2: the nuances of the game, and.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people do care. And that was the

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Speaker 1: discussion earlier.

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Speaker 2: Is because other journalists, other tennis players have said, we

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Speaker 2: owe this, this is part of the gig. Ash Barty,

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Speaker 2: Rafael Nadell among many top players who all said that

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Speaker 2: speaking to the press is part of the job.

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Speaker 3: Bring back the Woodies. Remember the Woodies. They're always chatty.

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Speaker 3: They were like the Beatles, making jokes. Bring those guys back.

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Speaker 2: But it's interesting that Naomi Sarka says, I'm very introverted

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Speaker 2: and this doing that side of it doesn't suit me.

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Speaker 2: I do my job on the court. Others are saying

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Speaker 2: your job is beyond the court. It's not just that,

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Speaker 2: And other journalists have said she gets criticized because she

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Speaker 2: doesn't play well on clay, and she doesn't want those

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Speaker 2: people to ask her about that while she's playing on clay.

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Speaker 3: What's with clay?

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Speaker 4: It's so weird, isn't it. They're playing on clay. Have

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Speaker 4: you ever played on a clay tennis court?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Remember when we were kids and Sydney was just tennis

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Speaker 4: courts everywhere.

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Speaker 3: Those were the days there's so much space.

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Speaker 1: My grandparents had one in their backyard.

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Speaker 3: And it wasn't like a richie thing people, and.

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Speaker 1: They'd read it out to the tennis club.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you'd have ladies midweek tennis.

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Speaker 4: But I remember Mum used to hate it because we'd

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Speaker 4: run around on the tennis court and we slide on

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Speaker 4: the clay and then your whites are get all stains

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Speaker 4: or brown stains.

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe Naomi should have been more specific about what

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Speaker 2: she doesn't like about clay.

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Speaker 1: I get stains all over my skirt.

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Speaker 3: I would like to ask us some questions. How do

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Speaker 3: you keep you white? So white? Naomi?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, wonder she's happy to pay twenty thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: to not answer that.

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Speaker 3: Jonesy and Amanda's