Osaka: “I know I'm not perfect and I can't always win”

Naomi Osaka will be one of the tennis players to follow in the women's team of the WTA 1,000 in Miami, where she will compete again a month after being proclaimed champion of the Australian Open and where she wants to continue her great streak of results.

Osaka confessed that she still does not know what her ideal schedule would be, although she hopes to be focused on the tournaments in which she will participate and remove the thorn she has with the big tournaments that are played in Europe. “I'm still not sure what a normal schedule would be but I have never considered myself a player who played every other week as well. I tend to feel homesick and sometimes I get sad. I would love to travel anywhere and just focus on that tournament. For me it is something that I have learned that it can work for me. And I hope this happens in Europe, because my results have not been very good, but I feel that every year on the circuit allows me to learn more about myself and the type of calendar I want to play. “

The Japanese tennis player has also confessed that she has changed her way of facing tournaments and that she has decided to remove the pressure that gripped her in previous years. “I changed the way I played tournaments. Before I felt that, with each defeat, I was failing my team. And now I know that the most important thing is that I have to push myself on the track and come out with the feeling of having given everything. I understood that I am not perfect and that I cannot always win. “

Osaka also wanted to speak about the criticism of the lack of dominant figures on the WTA circuit and justified it in this way. “The level of the WTA circuit has grown a lot, all the players are very strong and she can beat the best. They can interpret that there is weakness or that there is a lack of regularity, but in reality everything is very even and it is very difficult to beat any tennis player “.