Cari Champion doesn’t strike me as the sharpest tool in the shed.
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
It’s just tennis. Women’s tennis at that.
Osaka spends more time in America than Japan. Her dad is African American? I am okay if Naomi Osaka thinks she is American. It is a trivial issue. I am more interested in her tennis skills than her nationality.
She has been living in the US since she was four.
Go Iga!
She’s an anti-American racist.
Well, Osaka is American. She decided to play for Japan because her mother is Japanese. Her dad is American and pretty sure she was born here but at least was raised here.
Oh, the HORROR!
Get used to this. If there’s no sports betting involved, the commentators won’t care to get a clue.
And? Who cares it’s just tennis.
Naomi Osaka lives in California. She owns a home in Los Angeles and another in Beverly Hills.
She was born in Japan to a USA serviceman. That’s were her Japanese roots end. Her mother lives in the USA as well.
Is this a reboot of Dumb and Dumber???
For most of her life, Naomi had dual citizenship in both the U.S. and Japan. However, in October 2019, Naomi relinquished her American citizenship. Though the decision allowed her to play for Japan in the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics, that wasn’t the main reason. Under Japan’s Nationality Act, those with dual citizenship must choose one before their 22nd birthday. Naomi’s decision to relinquish her US citizenship came six days before that deadline.
Are you saying that Japanese people don’t understand tennis, Cari????? Uh-oh.
Although Osaka was raised in the United States, her parents decided that their daughters would represent Japan. They said,
"We made the decision that Naomi would represent Japan at an early age. She was born in Osaka and was brought up in a household of Japanese and Haitian culture. Quite simply, Naomi and her sister Mari have always felt Japanese so that was our only rationale. It was never a financially motivated decision nor were we ever swayed either way by any national federation."[
In the runup to the 2020 Olympics, Osaka—long a dual citizen of Japan and the United States—renounced her American citizenship so she could represent her birth country at the Games.
She is clearly Japanese/Haitian. I don't know how she ever got to be American and then renounce it.
too bad they both couldn’t have lost. Woked out Kamala supporting racist airheads.....power to the people.....get outta here.