Naomi Osaka Press Conference | 2024 US Open Round 2

excuse me no shooting from the seat one question one question only name and affiliation I'll get to as many as I can in the time that we have I probably won't get to everybody hands Peter Peter splendorio New York Daily News how did it feel to be back at a Arthur as Stadium tonight um it was really fun I felt I don't know like very grateful that there were so many people cheering and um yeah I uh missed it a lot okay Romi it felt like the margins were very slim today what do you think made the um honestly I also felt the same way um I think for me this match was just so different from my match with AA Peno um so I felt like you know I had to keep fighting I didn't feel like I was playing as perfectly as before for but I don't think you can play perfectly every match and um I'm not too sure I think during like the pressure moments I got nervous and I don't know if I just have to keep playing more matches and get used to that feeling um especially on a really big stage but I honestly if I get past the disappointment I feel pretty proud of myself to like have gotten that many opportunities while still feeling like um I could have played much better so Lucy Global um it was obvious that US Open was the tour we wanted to play the most but out of all of the four grand slams which one did you actually enjoy playing um honestly I enjoyed them all I think this year for me has been a learning year I put a lot of energy and effort into all the tournaments that I played I Australian Open was so fast so I probably forgot that one but um yeah I enjoyed learning how to enjoy the French Open I haven't been to Wimbledon in years so it was nice to go back there and um obviously the US Open is very special to me so I enjoyed it here too um yeah court court the work that you've done throughout the year and then now having the US Open kind of be done I'm just curious like going forward do you envision that this is a pattern like in terms of the schedule that you've played that you will have like you know next year or would it be a reassessment of pulling back and what has kind of putting yourself out there all the time kind of built within you this year um um I don't know I feel honestly I feel like I'm like coming back from pregnancy but also it wasn't like in 2022 I was like the best version of myself so in some way like I had to catch up to that and then also I'm trying to pass it at the same time and um I don't know it's it's been a little difficult because obviously I can only gauge how I'm doing bu results like I feel faster I feel better but I lost in the second round so it's a little rough but also it's been fun playing a lot of tournaments it's been a commitment for sure but um I've been able to go to different cities that I've never been to um I really enjoy Doha I I haven't been there so well I have been there but um I don't know it's been nice to go there but um yeah it's it's a little rough because I do take these losses really personally like uh it's like a dramatic word but like I feel like my heart dies every time I lose and it it sucks a lot but I've been trying to be more mature and um learn and talk more about them all right this will be our last question in English Charlie from the athletic I just wanted to ask you what you made of Karina's performance and and how good it is to have her back and fit on the to yeah I mean I remember um yeah playing her back in my day um but yeah she's always a really good player she's very athletic she um has a lot of variety and um I enjoy watching her play and also playing her even though you know sometimes it doesn't go my way but I think she's a great player and um the checks make some really talented players so it's very interesting and uh honestly I watched her play Coco last year and I completely forgot that she was like um def not defending the semi but she was in the semis last year until like I heard her doing her interview behind me when we were about to walk on and I was like oh yeah so that was like a completely pointless comment but anyways I'm sorry okay let's transition to Japanese please thank you yeah I mean I um obviously I've I've been a lot more negative after um matches but I really feel like um I don't know I feel like I'm working way harder than I've ever worked in my life so it needs to turn into something well it doesn't need to but I think it it will and um for me I just I don't know I appreciate the game and I I just really want to try my best um and how I feel after this tournament really disappointed but um I'm trying to take I guess the flowers from everything and I feel like I don't know it's kind of ironic that even though um even though I haven't like gotten to a final I still in my brain I think that I can win these tournaments and I I feel like eventually it'll all piece itself together and it might not be on the timeline that I want it to be but I think it'll come eventually so oh yeah yeah sorry um yeah I I'm planning to play both of them um I'm really excited to go to Japan I played bjk um and that was really fun for me so just to go back and play in Tokyo and Osaka and um obviously the last time I was in Osaka was the T tournament so um yeah I'm really excited you know okay never mind you know what no I'm going to say um I think no I'm gonna get cancelled um no I just like you know when you go to different countries and then it it's just the Japanese audience is so polite I want us to be more loud you know like the bjk crowd was so loud it was really fun um and I hope that they can be that loud during Tor and Osaka too I hope I don't get cancelled he thank you