The author with her newborn.There is no doubt that Naomi Osaka is blossoming again. During media day ahead of the Mubadala Open in Washington, D.C., this week, she spoke with renewed confidence about trusting herself. And she should. Osaka has put together one of the strongest stretches of tennis since becoming a mother.
This is despite struggling with a bout of postpartum depression she called “extremely bad” in her documentary, Naomi Osaka: The Second Set.
She said: “...During those early months, I felt like a shell of myself at all moments of the day. I no longer knew who I was anymore. It felt like everyone else had moved on and they were living in colour. Meanwhile, my world was stuck in grey...
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