Two-time Grand Slam Champion, Naomi Osaka, has opened up on her inner struggle by revealing that she has "a lot of regrets".

The 22-year-old, who spoke during the COVID-19 lockdown revealed that she had to struggle with an opponent from within: 'her crippling shyness'.

"For me, I have a lot of regrets before I go to sleep, and most of the regret is that I don't speak out about what I'm thinking.

"There's a lot of times where I see myself in situations where I could have put my input in, but instead I've held my tongue and things kept moving in a way that I didn't really enjoy," she explains.

"I feel like if I asserted myself I would have gotten the opportunity to see what would have happened."

One notable experience for her was the time she met Jay Z but was unable to express herself due to shyness.

"He started talking to me, but I got really nervous and started giving one-word replies so he suddenly said, 'Are you shy?' and I said, 'yeah,' and the convo came to a screeching halt."

However, the star revealed that she has overcome her deepest struggle during the chat with CNN from the Kitchen of her home in Los Angeles.

"I'm done being shy. It's really a waste of my time," she wrote. "I could've shared so many ideas by now, I could've had convos with so many different people. All the things I could've learned but no I'm over here actually putting my own limiter on myself."

"I want to take the chance to tell people I appreciate them while I can," she says.

"I would like to thank Jay-Z and Beyoncé for making music that motivates me because there was a period in my life where I just watched Beyoncé performances to get motivated.

"Even right now I'm listening to older Jay-Z songs because I feel like they're really chill."