Naomi Osaka's suffering is understandable. There are few sportsmen and -women who are clearly comfortable with post-match grilling. When the press conferences come on the telly, I switch over rather than watch the cringe-fests. The stars who can give a performance on stage which comes close to what they produce on the field of play or on court, the Federers and Djokovics, are very rare. Even those who can string sentences together under pressure seldom rise above clichés which one has heard many times before. One wonders what the point of these events are, apart from indulging the inferiority complexes of generally unfit white middle-aged male sports correspondents who are granted the only opportunity to bully people who are worth a hundred of them.
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