“It’ll be a big difference playing for Japan at the Olympics, she is the one they are advertising with at the Summer Games. I would think she is the biggest star in Japan in sports. The pressure is different. It’s like playing the Davis Cup or Fed Cup for your country. I never played in the Olympics, but I can only imagine,” he continued.
Wilander, who’s now a professional tennis commentator, also expressed that he doesn’t know if Osaka is under any pressure yet because of her current dominance on the circuit and she hasn’t lost in any of her four major final appearances.
“I think we have to go back to the fact she has not lost a Grand Slam Final, she has never lost in the second week. Monica Seles, I think, won her first four Grand Slam Finals so I don’t know if she feels pressure because pressure is built when you fail. Well, she doesn’t know what that feels like.”
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Summer Olympic games will be held this year from July 23 to August 8.
