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Statement from Grand Slam Tournaments Regarding Naomi Osaka
Grand Slam tournaments. "Statement from Grand Slam Tournaments Regarding Naomi Osaka." Roland-Garros, May 31, 2021, https://www.rolandgarros.com/en-us/article/statement-from-grand-slam-tournaments-regarding-naomi-osaka.
Why this matters here
The Grand Slam tournaments’ 2021 statement set institutional terms for Naomi Osaka’s refusal of mandatory press conferences. The Game We Think We Saw uses that conflict to separate the match from the job around the game—and to ask what a system demands when an athlete declines the unpaid emotional labor of the spectacle.
