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Naomi Osaka, documentary about the 23-year-old tennis champion.
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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Tennis star Naomi Osaka is just 23 years old, but she has already changed the game, not just by what she s done - winning four Grand Slams while making ever stronger statements about social justice - but also for what she has refused to do - withdrawing from the French Open and Wimbledon and declining to speak to the media in order, she said, to protect her mental health. Now a new Netflix docuseries about her life shares more of her story, the highs and lows in the life of a very young woman still learning to cope with the weight of international celebrity.