Naomi Osaka just won her second consecutive Grand Slam at the Australian Open. After overcoming Petra Kvitova in a three-set thriller in the final of the Australian, 21 year-old Osaka is the worlds number one women’s tennis player, and makes history as the first person of Asian descent to do so. Naomi’s mother, Tamaki Osaka was born in Hokkaido Japan.
โI had dreams that I would win this tournament,โ Osaka said in her subsequent press conference. โEvery time I have a dream, somehow I accomplish it. Still, I feel like itโs a very strange moment, like itโs not necessarily real.โ
Osaka’s father, Leonard Franรงois, who is Haitian, says he was inspired to teach his daughters how to play tennis from watching the Williams sistersย compete at the 1999 French Open.ย
Congratulations Naomi!