Introducing our August cover star, Naomi Osaka 🎾💫 The tennis champion has shot to fame at the blinding speed of one of her serves, but still remains something of an enigma. One thing is for sure: Naomi_Osaka_ wants to win more than anyone else:
. I was not thinking about this imbalanced vocabulary. I was thinking, Could Naomi Osaka kill me if she wanted to?And then, months later, when Osaka lost her No.
Osaka was born in Japan to a Japanese mother and Haitian father, who moved the family to Long Island, New York, when she was three. At 15, she entered her first WTA qualifying match. Five years and countless matches later, the WTA awarded her Newcomer of the Year. Then, two years after that, in a match marred by controversy, she beat Serena Williams to earn her first U.S. Open title. She wept while accepting her trophy.
Osaka is fluent in both English and Japanese — though when fielding post-match questions from the Japanese press, she'll respond in English. In Japan, Osaka is Lebron James, followed around by peeping hordes of fans. In America, Osaka is Naomi Osaka, a 21-year-old tennis player, and also an acquaintance of Lebron James, who is a fan of Naomi Osaka.
Osaka looks to her press agent, who looks to his wife, who looks at Osaka. "I think it has something to do with French?" her agent asks everybody. Nobody knows.I do not. The system of scoring in tennis defies logic. It begins at love , then proceeds to 15, then 30, then, just when you are comfortable counting in increments of 15, it goes to 40. Then, when you are comfortable operating in numerals, it switches back to words — deuce, advantage.Stella McCartney bikini top.
Osaka is currently training for clay season, which begins at the Porsche Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany, and ends at the French Open. When Osaka is training in Los Angeles, as she is now , her clay court of choice is located in an otherwise nondescript backyard near Calabasas, where she can murder a chain-link fence in peace, to the sound of California birdsongs.
"My parents weren't exactly the richest, so what am I going to do?" she continues. "I'm not really the smartest. I've been playing tennis my whole life, you know? So there's nothing I can imagine myself doing. It's either I have to be the best or I'm going to be homeless.
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