The former Australian Open champion is not competing in Melbourne this year, having rejected the grind of the tour
Photograph: Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Sarah Stier/Getty Imageslong time ago, I took a part-time job in a high-street clothing store. It was late November, and amid the chaos of the Christmas rush I quickly discovered that nobody had the faintest idea what I was meant to be doing or whether I was actually doing it. One morning I overslept and queasily awaited the shrill phone call from a supervisor. It never came. The day passed.
But of course, Osaka had not really disappeared. Last week she posted photos on Instagram of a recent holiday to Paris with her boyfriend, the rapper Cordae. They visited the Louvre and saw the Mona Lisa. On Wednesday she was tagged in a picture at a Pilates studio in Los Angeles. But game recognise game. I think I have an inkling of what may be going on here. And if you’re one of those squalid media chatterboxes who gets his kicks from tearing down a 25-year-old woman with a history of mental health issues, who laid into her when she decided to skip a few press conferences a couple of years back, who sees the world in vivid shades of black, white and puce, then you’re not going to like it. For Osaka’s hiatus bears all the hallmarks of “quiet quitting”.
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