Yes, mental issues not just for tennis players, but all other high profile athletes as well, it was a taboo topic before, but thanks to Osaka for bringing this up and accepting and recognizing it and let all the people know, that tennis players are human too and are undergoing a lot.
So let's hope Raducanu will not fall for it, as we have said it is very difficult to cope. She is still young too, a lot of learning experience a long the way.
@aoluain - I haven't check the tournament, yet, but will see, maybe a couple of bets around.
She isn't the first to do that, but perhaps the one to have done it at the right time. Borg had mental issues as well and he tried to open up, but back at the time it was nothing more but a weakness. So let's hope Raducanu will not fall for it, as we have said it is very difficult to cope. She is still young too, a lot of learning experience a long the way.
@aoluain - I haven't check the tournament, yet, but will see, maybe a couple of bets around.
For me personally, there is not enough talk in the whole sports world and elsewhere when it comes to non-perfect human capacity. And sometimes think that it is exactly the fact that we are not robots which makes us so special ultimately. We just need to draw the right conclusions from all we know instead of insulting people for being weak or losing a game. This counts for all areas in life. How is a person that is always strong and doesn't even know what it feels like to be weak actually help the weak? I have had bad phases, and I am happy I had them. All of them enriched my personality in one or another way and they helped me understand my life and others' lives better.
Top sportspeople like these always have that mental pressure, more compared to normal people like us. So it is pretty normal for them to suffer from depression and stuff. But what's not normal is that often it is overlooked. But also this taboo is now not seen as a taboo as much as before. Raducanu is still young and has many years ahead for her and I hope she can recover from whatever she is going through. And maybe it should be normalized for every player to keep a therapist or a mental advisor.
I wouldn't fully agree with that. The top stars just have another kind of pressure than the average Joe or Susan has. They are filthy rich but a target of the media and every single troll on the internet while the mom with four kids is fighting everyday to gather enough money to feed her kids and pay the bills. Depression is a phenomenon that can be found anywhere wehre subjective pressure exists. Things that stress not necessarily stress you out. That is why tolerance and empathy is so important. And that is also a reason why there is no point in saying "well that guy has millions why is he stressed out?"... Stars can surely be stressed out and they are, but so could everyone else be with much less public focus put on him or her.
