Naomi Osaka is seeing a therapist after heckling incident at Indian wells. The idea was suggested by her sister Mari Osaka and it has already yielded benefits for Naomi Osaka.
Osaka said:
“My sister seemed very concerned for me. I’ve been trying a lot of different things because I tend to internalize things, and I always want to do everything myself.
My coach said, ‘You hire a coach for tennis, for fitness. The mind is such a big thing. If you can get a professional to help you out 0.5 percent, that alone is worth it.’”
Naomi Osaka was in tears after a fan heckled her in the match against Veronika Kudermetova. Osaka said that this incident reminded her of the 2001 incident in which the Indian Wells crowd yelled racial slurs in a match involving Venus and Serena Williams.