Naomi Osaka Discloses She's Now Part of a Mom’s Groups Chat With WTA Players

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Vivek Devane | Last updated May 8, 2025 12:45 AM ET

Naomi Osaka, who is currently competing at the Rome Open, has always been open about what goes on in her life. In her recent press conference, when asked about receiving support from other mothers on the WTA Tour, Osaka responded with characteristic honesty and trademark humor.

“Like uh I don't know how to answer your question because... probably,” said Naomi Osaka, answering a reporter’s question if she had been added to any group chat by the WTA moms on the tour.

“But I also am not the one that speaks a lot, like I only talk if someone asks me a question- that's kind of how I operate and I have really bad social skills,” said Osaka. “So, like there probably is a mom's group chat but I just don't talk a lot and I don't know if that's my answer to your question,” she added.

“But also, I find that I talk to more people now than I do before so I'm hoping that my skills in that aspect level up as well,” she added with a wry smile.

The WTA now has several players who have in recent times become mothers, such as Caroline Wozniacki, Taylor Townsend, Elina Svitolina, and more recently, the likes of Belinda Bencic and Petra Kvitova. Osaka, thus, has a healthy amount of support that she can lean on when it comes to being a traveling mother on the WTA tour.

Osaka also mentioned that after her Madrid Open loss, she was contemplating whether she wanted to compete more or go home because she was missing her child. Eventually, she decided to get more matches under her belt and traveled to France, where she ended up winning her first-ever clay title.

“I was just more missing my daughter a lot, and I was thinking like I wonder if the time would have been spent better after Madrid going to see her really quickly as opposed to playing the tournament, which like luckily, I was able to snap out of that, but its kind of funny like during tennis sometimes you don’t think about tennis at all”, said Osaka.

As Osaka traverses through the challenges of being a professional tennis player while being a mom, it remains to be seen if she goes on to win more titles as a mother in the immediate future.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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