{"id":53927,"date":"2025-08-08T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53927\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T06:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:57:07","slug":"why-tennis-fans-must-be-careful-in-criticising-naomi-osakas-post-match-speech-after-losing-to-victoria-mboko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/53927\/","title":{"rendered":"Why tennis fans must be careful in criticising Naomi Osaka\u2019s post-match speech after losing to Victoria Mboko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Naomi Osaka has come under fire after the Canadian Open final for failing to congratulate Victoria Mboko in her post-match speech.<\/p>\n

She cut an emotional figure, having come from one set up to lose to the teenage sensation. It marked a sad end to a really successful week for the Japanese superstar, and this will certainly have played a part in her speech snub.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old was quick to get her time on the microphone over with and swiftly moved aside to allow Victoria Mboko<\/a>, the new champion, to step into the limelight.<\/p>\n

There, she shrank into the background, dwelling on what seemed a completely avoidable defeat given how she started the match.<\/p>\n

Little did she know the backlash that was brewing based on her speech.<\/p>\n

Naomi Osaka explains why she didn\u2019t congratulate Victoria Mboko after Canadian Open final<\/p>\n

Naomi Osaka<\/a> clearly understood the mistake she had made in her post-match press conference though, as she quickly sought to offer an explanation for why she failed to congratulate Mboko.<\/p>\n

Her justification was short, and offered no apology; but it did make sense.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaPhoto by Minas Panagiotakis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

After all, being forced to speak after such a draining and emotional loss is never easy, as Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> will testify.<\/p>\n

All Osaka told Canadian Open<\/a> reporters was: \u201cYeah, I mean, definitely. I think it\u2019s kind of funny. This morning I was very grateful. I don\u2019t know why my emotions flipped so quickly, but I\u2019m really happy to have played the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Victoria played really well. I completely forgot to congratulate her on the court. Yeah, I mean, she did really amazing, so\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

A simple explanation, and one that should hopefully quell criticism.<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka\u2019s example leads Naomi Osaka defence<\/p>\n

As touched upon earlier, Sabalenka\u2019s words after losing the French Open final to Coco Gauff, and the subsequent reaction, should act as a great reason why tennis fans should be careful about piling onto Osaka after this honest mistake.<\/p>\n

After all, it\u2019s tough to keep emotions in check after losing in such a high-stakes match, as countless others have proven across the history of the sport.<\/p>\n

The Belarusian in particular was ravaged for what she said, as many slammed Sabalenka for claiming Iga Swiatek would have won the Roland Garros final<\/a> had they swapped places.<\/p>\n

Following that, after issuing apology after apology to Gauff, she eventually admitted: \u201cThat was just completely unprofessional of me. I let my emotions get the better of me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just a human being who\u2019s still learning in life. I think we all have those days when we lose control.\u201d<\/p>\n

Osaka will certainly agree with Sabalenka\u2019s assessment, and hope that tennis fans can perhaps learn a lesson about being too harsh in their reaction to such a mistake.<\/p>\n

The players are humans, and should be treated as such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka has come under fire after the Canadian Open final for failing to congratulate Victoria Mboko in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,17581,24456,82,593,17045],"class_list":{"0":"post-53927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-open","11":"tag-naomi-osaka","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-victoria-mboko"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}