I'd agree with most of that - Osaka is privileged, she does have...

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    I'd agree with most of that - Osaka is privileged, she does have assistance, she can afford Rolls Royce treatment and she has to follow the rules. Fair enough.

    But that's not the point of the posts you were complaining about.

    It's how the French Open managed the situation - they escalated rather than de-escalated the problem. Osaka notified them, tried to explain and acknowledged she would be fined. They then ganged up to threaten a person who had mental health issues with future disqualifications and loss of career, ridiculed her on Twitter and denounced her in public. That's colossally poor people management. Gilles Morretton shouldn't be in charge of lemonade stand.

    Then Morretton, the same man who labelled Osaka’s decision to boycott press conferences a “phenomenal error”, decided he was in no mood to open it up to the journalists in the room. He ran. No penalty or threats for him. Just like Djokovic ran from the most important media conference of his career after his disqualification from the 2020 US Open.

    Seems there's different rules for some privileged tennis people, but not for others, don't you think?


 
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