Osaka wants to use media boycott ‘to bring about change’, says coach
The HinduNaomi Osaka’s coach says she is using her superstar status to force change with her controversial media boycott at Roland Garros. “Naomi has the opportunity to use her status to address problems and to initiate things,” Osaka’s Belgian coach Wim Fissette told German magazine Der Spiegel. Osaka has likened traditional post-match press conferences to “kicking people when they’re down”, but French Tennis Federation president Gilles Moretton has described her vow of silence as “a phenomenal error”. Change makes people uncomfortable.” In the Spiegel interview, Fissette also insisted Osaka “knows it’s important to talk to the press” and is not boycotting the media “for herself alone”, but is “concerned with fundamental issues — she wants to bring about change”.
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