Japanese Naomi Osaka, the former world number one tennis player, admitted today "a lot of remorse" because of her shyness, and wants to take advantage of the quarantine period due to the emerging corona virus to find ways to "be more assertive."
"I think people know me as a very shy person," said Osaka, who is spending a quarantine at her Los Angeles home.
The 22-year-old, who has won two major championships (U.S. Open 2018 and Australian Open 2019), believes that this shyness sometimes made her suffer from undesirable situations.
"I want to take advantage of this stone period to think about many things. When I go to sleep I feel a lot of remorse, most of it due to the fact that I do not express what I think about," she said.
"I find myself several times in situations where I could have expressed my opinion, but in the end I fell silent and things did not develop as I wanted," she said, before explaining that she had to be "firmer."
Osaka, now ranked 10th globally, went through a difficult period psychologically and physically, despite winning the Australian Open in 2019, and admitted that she suffered from depression. Since the date of the resumption of tournaments and tournaments is not known at the present time, Osaka said that it took advantage of the downtime to discover other things, such as drawing.