Naomi Osaka: four-time Grand Slam singles champion, former world No. 1, and … soon-to-be author? Already the subject of a biography written by tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg, Osaka might soon join other tennis legends like Andre Agassi and Maria Sharapova by penning an autobiography.
On Thursday night, Osaka shared on the social media platform Threads that she’s been “writing a book” and wanted to share an excerpt, hoping that someone find it relatable. A day later, she followed through, sharing a candid excerpt of her musings. The four-slide post, titled “Ramblings1 (Self Love?),” chronicles how Osaka viewed herself in her youth, and how she’s embraced her uniqueness and found self-acceptance as she’s matured.
“Someone asked what the book is about and to be honest I don’t know how to classify it,” she wrote in a subsequent post. “I would say it’s about my life, observations I made and lessons learned along the way.”
Osaka’s writings center on the theme of comparison, with her sharing how she measured herself against other people her age, and other tennis players, to her detriment. When she was a child, Osaka wrote, she even “potentially would’ve preferred to be someone else.”
