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Naomi Osaka has undergone a stunning transformation. With her win at the 2021 Australian Open, she became the first female tennis athlete in 30 years to win her first four Grand Slam finals.

A feat that Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Steffi Graf, and Martina Navratilova couldn’t muster, as Yahoo Sport points out. In fact, Osaka defeated Serena in that open’s semi-final round.

 

But when a reporter asked Osaka if she still thought Serena was the face of tennis, Osaka once again showed her unflagging respect for the woman whose career inspired her own.

 

“This is going to sound really odd, but hopefully I play long enough to play a girl that said that I was once her favorite player or something,” the tennis champ said after the match. “For me, I think that’s the coolest thing that could ever happen to me… That’s how the sport moves forward.”

 

And now Osaka wants to pay it forward and inspire the next generation. From her transcontinental childhood spent training alongside her older sister to her ascent to tennis superstardom (with earnings to match), here is the evolution of Naomi Osaka.

 

Naomi Osaka has undergone a stunning transformation. With her win at the 2021 Australian Open, she became the first female tennis athlete in 30 years to win her first four Grand Slam finals, a feat that Serena Williams, Venus Williams, Steffi Graf, and Martina Navratilova couldn’t muster, as Yahoo! Sport points out. In fact, Osaka defeated Serena in that open’s semi-final round.

But when a reporter asked Osaka if she still thought Serena was the face of tennis, Osaka once again showed her unflagging respect for the woman whose career inspired her own.

 

“This is going to sound really odd, but hopefully I play long enough to play a girl that said that I was once her favorite player or something,” the tennis champ said after the match. “For me, I think that’s the coolest thing that could ever happen to me… That’s how the sport moves forward.”

 

And now Osaka wants to pay it forward and inspire the next generation. From her transcontinental childhood spent training alongside her older sister to her ascent to tennis superstardom (with earnings to match), here is the evolution of Naomi Osaka.

Naomi Osaka was born to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother

Naomi Osaka was born on October 16, 1997, and she shares her surname with her birthplace: Osaka, Japan. Naomi’s father, Leonard Francois, was born in Haiti, and her mother, Tamaki Osaka, was born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, according to a 2018 profile of the athlete in The New York Times.

 

Francois was a college student in New York when he traveled to Sapporo around 1990, at a time when Tamaki was attending high school in the same city, Hokkaido’s capital.

 

The duo secretly dated for several years before Tamaki, in her twenties by that point, disclosed the relationship to her father, who was ready to talk to her about matchmaking ahead of an arranged marriage. Facing outrage from her father, Tamaki and Francois moved to Osaka, where they had their daughters, Naomi and Mari Osaka.

 

Stuart Duguid, Naomi’s agent at I.M.G., reflected on his client’s biracial status in 2018, telling the Times he hopes Naomi has “changed cultural perceptions of multiracial people in Japan,” as well as “opened the door for other people to follow, not just in tennis or sports, but for all of society.”

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