Naomi Osaka says the amount of attention she gets is ‘ridiculous’ in new docuseries trailer

“No one really knows all the sacrifices that you make,” Naomi Osaka narrates in the opening moments of her eponymous Netflix docuseries trailer. “Just to be good.”

In this docuseries that is sure to turn heads faster than a tennis ball, the 23-year-old Japanese tennis champ and four-time Grand Slam winner provides an all-access look into her life since winning her first Grand Slam in 2018, and explores the pressure to be what she calls an “overnight success.”

"I think the amount of attention I get is kind of ridiculous," she says, alluding to the pressure it puts on her mentally. "No one prepares you for that." 

"For so long, I've tied winning to my worth as a person," she adds as images flash of her training and racing around the court. “What am I if I'm not a good tennis player?" 

The three-part docuseries also takes a deep dive into her upbringing, with private home videos from her youth, and touches on the strength she channels from her enslaved ancestors and her drive to amplify Black Lives Matter. Clearly, her father, Leonard Francois, is a support and mentor to Naomi in that work. 

“I always have this pressure to maintain this squeaky image,” she says of how her mentality has changed since the start of her career. “But now I don’t care what anyone has to say.” 

Naomi made headlines this year for withdrawing from the French Open after she was fined $15,000 for refusing to participate in post-game press conferences, citing mental health reasons. She then withdrew from Wimbledon before the tournament began, but will still compete in the Tokyo Olympics. 

"The series is about Naomi's journey, within a snapshot of her life," director Garrett Bradley, whose film Time was nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, said in a press release.

"But it's also about life's purpose, about personal worth, about the courage that it takes to allow one's personal values to inform their work and vice versa.

"More than anything, I'd hope people can feel the power of empathy and to feel encouraged to take chances in life, perhaps especially in moments where the stakes can feel impossibly high."

Naomi also said in the statement, “I feel like the platform that I have right now is something that I used to take for granted, and for me I feel like I should be using it for something. I believe, instead of following, you have to make your own path.”

We are absolutely loving the walls she is crashing through this year, and sticking to her guns no matter the consequences. We need this docuseries to drop RIGHT NOW, but we will begrudgingly wait until its official premiere on July 16^th, just in time for the Olympics!

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