Williams has not won any Grand Slam singles titles since then. Osaka ended up in tears during the trophy ceremony as the crowd howled at the outcome.
Open final, when an overmatched Williams was penalized for receiving coaching and ended up in an ugly dispute with the chair umpire, Carlos Ramos. Osaka won three of the matches, most memorably the 2018 U.S. Both have been unafraid to take on the tennis establishment. Like Williams, Naomi Osaka has not been shy about speaking out on social justice issues, especially in 2020, following a series of police killings and shootings of Black people.
The first mountain each had to climb was getting good enough to play with and then beat their older sisters.
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Osaka also has an older sister who played professional tennis Mari Osaka, 26, retired last year.įor much of their childhoods, Mari was the better player, though Naomi appeared to have a higher ceiling because of her speed, just as Serena Williams did. Like Williams, Osaka was largely coached by her father, who has spoken of copying the playbook Richard Williams essentially wrote for creating female champions. Osaka, whose mother is Japanese and father is Haitian, is a Japanese national, but, like Williams, she grew up largely as a Black woman in America, but their links go far beyond that. “I hope that somebody can look at me and say that I feel like I can do it because she did it.” “It made me feel that I could do it,” she said Monday of learning about how Williams and her sister Venus had grown up poor in Compton, Calif., and broken into what had been an overwhelmingly white sport.
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