On Sunday night in Indian Wells, there was a dramatic scene in the match of former tournament champion Naomi Osaka.
In the first set of the match, Naomi Osaka was broken by Kudmetova. In the second set, as Naomi Osaka was about to receive the ball, a female fan shouted from the audience: "Throw her out!" (Throw her out!) Naomi, you suck. After hearing this, Naomi Osaka walked up to the referee and exchanged a few words, then walked back to the venue to continue the game.
After losing the first two sets, Naomi Osaka burst into tears before the start of the second serve. After being broken a second time by her opponent, Naomi Osaka asked the referee to find the person who had just insulted her during the break, and the referee said that he could not do anything about it. Naomi Osaka then asked to borrow the referee's microphone to speak to the audience and assured the referee that she would not swear. The request was rejected by the referee, who had never spoken to the audience with the referee's microphone in the middle of the game.
However, the referee assured Naomi Osaka that if the audience interfered with her again, she would be taken off the court immediately.
In the end, Naomi Osaka lost the match 0-6, 4-6. The race side made an exception and arranged for her to speak to the audience with a microphone after the game, "To be honest, I have been booed before, and this did not really bother me. But being booed here – I watched a video of Venus and Selena (Big and Small) being booed here, and if you've never seen it, you should look at it. I don't know why, but it got into my head and was replayed many times. I tried not to cry. ”
Naomi Osaka compares her experience to what happened to the 2001 Booing of the Big Andwe sisters in the Indian Wells final. Well, it is necessary to briefly review the incident of the booing of big and small Wei 21 years ago.
At the time, the Big Andy Sisters were competitive players in women's tennis. It is rumored that their father, Richard, will manipulate the sisters' wins and losses because of the need for profit. A semi-final of the 2001 Indian Wells women's singles was between big and small, and a few minutes before the start of the match, Dawei suddenly announced that he was withdrawn from the game due to injury, and escorted his sister Serena to the final, and the audience who had bought tickets to watch the sister showdown was very disappointed, and some people felt deceived and fooled.
In Sunday's final, when Richard and Dawei entered the audience, they were booed by the audience. In the middle of the match between Serena and Christers, the boos of the live audience continued. After winning the championship, Serena thought the boos from the audience were racist, and she and her sister Dawei began to boycott the event. Serena didn't return to Indian Wells until 2015, and Serena didn't return to Indian Wells until 2016.
Dawei was booed in Indian Wells, directly because Dawei announced his retirement at the last minute before the semi-finals, which caused disgust among the audience, and some people regarded the booing of the audience as racist.
But What Naomi Osaka encountered on Sunday was very different from what she was booed 21 years ago, and the audience's verbal abuse had nothing to do with racial discrimination. Compared to Serena's almost entire audience booing at the tournament 21 years ago, only one spectator spoke ill of Naomi Osaka last Sunday, and only appeared once, and for most of the game, the audience applauded Naomi Osaka.
So, despite the boos too, the two events are fundamentally different. Naomi Osaka's analogy of size is not very appropriate.
Although inappropriate, such an analogy would obviously give Naomi Osaka more understanding, sympathy, and support. Moreover, such an analogy can also make Naomi Osaka psychologically enhance her sense of justice, which in turn highlights the moral inferiority of the abuser and how deeply Naomi Osaka has been wronged.
But if we look at it from a different perspective, is Naomi Osaka making a bit of a fuss or overreacting? After hearing the insults of an audience member, Naomi Osaka burst into tears on the spot, resulting in the first set of egg swallowing, is this too sensitive and fragile?
Anyone familiar with Naomi Osaka knows that Sunday's tear collapse was expected. During last year's French Open, Naomi Osaka accused some reporters of asking questions that amounted to "kicking another kick when a player falls", and participating in such a post-match press conference will have an impact on her mental health, so she decided not to attend.
The move brought Naomi Osaka widely criticized, with the four Grand Slams speaking out for her, and if she continued to refuse to participate in the post-match press conference, she would be banned, and the French Open fined her according to the rules.
In fact, being ridiculed by the audience is common in many competitions. Swear words are named by the audience, and it is not uncommon in football and rugby matches. Even in tennis, which many people call "elegant sports", the untimely booing of spectators is commonplace.
Murray once said, "When I watch a football game, a player wants to throw an out-of-bounds ball or serve a corner, and the audience will loudly insult, and the players usually pretend not to hear... Compared to tennis, I always wonder, how is this possible? How can a football audience do that?
"I've played in the Davis Cup and the atmosphere is intense, and sometimes the audience says something too drastic and it doesn't sound so comfortable. Today's incident, I'm obviously on Naomi's side, makes her very unhappy, but it's always been part of the sport, you have to be prepared for it, you have to get used to it or be able to handle it, even if it's not pleasant. ”
Djokovic has a deeper memory of these unpleasant feelings, but he has already cultivated a strong heart. Djokovic knows how to deal with these noises, and more often than not, he will turn off-court interference and hostility into motivation to motivate himself, respond to doubts with achievements, and punch his attackers in the face with winning points and victories, which is the most powerful response to the attackers.
Those who insult Naomi Osaka deserve to be blamed or even punished, but this kind of behavior is difficult to eradicate, and it is difficult for the tournament side to prevent and prevent similar things from happening again in the future. The only thing a player can do is understand and accept this fact, and try to eliminate undue interference from some viewers.
There are all kinds of people in this society, each with their own values and subjective judgments. During the PREVIOUS YEAR'S. Open, Naomi Osaka appeared wearing masks with black names written on them, some of whom were criminals and thugs. Naomi Osaka's move is intended to promote racial equality, and some people point out that she is sensationalizing, these two very different evaluations have always existed, and the controversy has never stopped.
So when the female fan shouted "Throw her out!" on Sunday night. Naomi, you suck.” In fact, it is also a kind of sensationalism. If such insults occur again, the tournament side can only drive her off the field, and there is no better way to deal with it.
If the tears ripple after being insulted, the glass heart collapses, then it does not seem to bring any help or benefit other than satisfying the attacker's wishes and embarrassing himself.
After Naomi Osaka finished speaking after the game, the host of the scene, Andrew Krasny, tried to ease the atmosphere at the time, telling Naomi Osaka: "Of the 10,000 people here, one person's voice can't drown out the other 9,999 people, and we all love you." ”
This is probably the only consolation That Naomi Osaka can get! (Source: Tennis House Author: Yun Cirrus Yunshu)