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https://www.wtatennis.com/news/wimbledon-2019-naomi-osaka-grass-its-been-very-humbling-experience
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"If you ask me right now, I would say for me grass is the hardest surface to learn because I've played on clay, despite the fact that it was green clay when I was little," Osaka told reporters at Media Day ahead of Wimbledon.
"But I never played on grass until I was 16 or 17. Every day I learn something while I play here. You only technically play on grass for three weeks out of the year, opposed to the clay season. I just feel like my brain has to work way harder every day than the clay season."
"It's been kind of tough, especially since it's way more unpredictable than clay. But I feel like it should be good for me because it's very heavily reliant on the first serves, sort of being the first person to be aggressive.
"I've been kind of trying to learn every day. I think it's been a very humbling experience."
Osaka practiced with Madison Keys over the weekend and found it to be another lesson for her always-processing mind. As opposed to Osaka, Keys is a grass-court stalwart, a Wimbledon quarterfinalist who has won two of her four titles on grass.
"She was serving and I don't think I'm a bad returner, but I would hit a return right at her feet and she would hit a winner off of that. I was like, this isn't right. I wasn't doing anything wrong but she was killing me 3-0 in like 7 minutes. I came back from that, but the first 7 minutes were terrible.
"I know I wasn't doing anything wrong but she was just blowing me away. I don't think I've done that to anybody before. That level of talent, to me, is crazy. I don't know how other people see me from the other side of the net but that's what I was processing when I was hitting with her."
"I was hitting with her and I was thinking she's so talented. She was doing stuff that's so impossible to do and she's doing it so easily and it's such a natural thing for her.
"I was thinking, in essence, for me, people say that I'm talented, but when I was winning the Grand Slams it was because I was working hard. So I'm not a naturally talented person. I don't think I'm a naturally talented person. I think I'm supposed to be a hard worker. And that's what I learned from hitting with her today."
Osaka comes into Wimbledon with a chance to recapture the No.1 ranking she ceded to Ashleigh Barty two weeks ago after Birmingham. Barty's 12-match run through Roland Garros and Birmingham ended Osaka's 21-week run at the top of the game. With time to reflect now on her time at the top, Osaka said the experience was overwhelming.
"Mentally it was way more stress and pressure than I could have imagined," Osaka said. "I don't think there was anything that could have prepared me for that, especially since I'm kind of an overthinker.
"So, yeah, I think it's better for me now to be - I was going to say lower ranked, isn't that crazy - to be No. 2 here because the only upside is if you win the tournament, you're automatically No. 1. That, for sure, is a really big goal of mine. I don't have to think about defending the ranking or anything."
"I'm really happy for Ashleigh. She's super amazing. I think her whole story of how she quit and came back is super cool."
So restlos überzeugt von sich selber scheint sie ja nicht zu sein. Sie sieht sich selbst sogar als weniger talentiert an als Madison Keys
Find ich schon recht interessant diese Aussagen von Ihr
"If you ask me right now, I would say for me grass is the hardest surface to learn because I've played on clay, despite the fact that it was green clay when I was little," Osaka told reporters at Media Day ahead of Wimbledon.
"But I never played on grass until I was 16 or 17. Every day I learn something while I play here. You only technically play on grass for three weeks out of the year, opposed to the clay season. I just feel like my brain has to work way harder every day than the clay season."
"It's been kind of tough, especially since it's way more unpredictable than clay. But I feel like it should be good for me because it's very heavily reliant on the first serves, sort of being the first person to be aggressive.
"I've been kind of trying to learn every day. I think it's been a very humbling experience."
Osaka practiced with Madison Keys over the weekend and found it to be another lesson for her always-processing mind. As opposed to Osaka, Keys is a grass-court stalwart, a Wimbledon quarterfinalist who has won two of her four titles on grass.
"She was serving and I don't think I'm a bad returner, but I would hit a return right at her feet and she would hit a winner off of that. I was like, this isn't right. I wasn't doing anything wrong but she was killing me 3-0 in like 7 minutes. I came back from that, but the first 7 minutes were terrible.
"I know I wasn't doing anything wrong but she was just blowing me away. I don't think I've done that to anybody before. That level of talent, to me, is crazy. I don't know how other people see me from the other side of the net but that's what I was processing when I was hitting with her."
"I was hitting with her and I was thinking she's so talented. She was doing stuff that's so impossible to do and she's doing it so easily and it's such a natural thing for her.
"I was thinking, in essence, for me, people say that I'm talented, but when I was winning the Grand Slams it was because I was working hard. So I'm not a naturally talented person. I don't think I'm a naturally talented person. I think I'm supposed to be a hard worker. And that's what I learned from hitting with her today."
Osaka comes into Wimbledon with a chance to recapture the No.1 ranking she ceded to Ashleigh Barty two weeks ago after Birmingham. Barty's 12-match run through Roland Garros and Birmingham ended Osaka's 21-week run at the top of the game. With time to reflect now on her time at the top, Osaka said the experience was overwhelming.
"Mentally it was way more stress and pressure than I could have imagined," Osaka said. "I don't think there was anything that could have prepared me for that, especially since I'm kind of an overthinker.
"So, yeah, I think it's better for me now to be - I was going to say lower ranked, isn't that crazy - to be No. 2 here because the only upside is if you win the tournament, you're automatically No. 1. That, for sure, is a really big goal of mine. I don't have to think about defending the ranking or anything."
"I'm really happy for Ashleigh. She's super amazing. I think her whole story of how she quit and came back is super cool."
So restlos überzeugt von sich selber scheint sie ja nicht zu sein. Sie sieht sich selbst sogar als weniger talentiert an als Madison Keys
