Naomi Osaka has already inspired millions of people after winning the Australian Open in 2021 after becoming an icon for fans and brands after Black Lives Matter. The four-time Grand Slam champion is a role model for young women around the world: she decided to find a way that would support girls in sport.
She said, as we can read on Essentially Sports: “I can’t imagine what my life would be like without tennis. That’s why I decided to start a project with Naomi Osaka called Play Academy.
Our goal is to inspire girls to stay in sports by giving them the tools, resources, and inspiration they need to stay motivated. We are currently focused on activation in Japan, but I have ambitious goals for the project.
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Naomi Osaka and the Inclusion of Girls in Sports
The project will focus on encouraging girls to stay in sport, starting in Japan and going all the way around the world. Given his social inclusion activities, we must remember that a few days ago Naomi Osaka spoke about Yoshiro Mori, the former Japanese Prime Minister and President of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, who has only discussed with some of his statements in the past few days.
Mori said, “Boards with a lot of women take a long time because they have a hard time making their speeches.” Words that provoked an immediate reaction from the three-time Grand Slam champion and were not new to exposing themselves to socially sensitive issues.
She said, “These are the words of an ignorant person. I would like to know what is behind those words. Anyone who makes such statements should know what you are talking about.” In the course of her career, she has won seven WTA titles from eleven finals played, four of which are Grand Slam tournaments: She boasts of winning two US Open in 2018 and 2020 and two Australian Open in 2019 and 2021.
After the first Australian success, it also reached first place in the world rankings for the first time on January 28, 2019. Naomi became the first Japanese female athlete to win a Grand Slam title, the third in the Open Era to qualify for the WTA Finals in 2018, and the first Asian to ever reach the top of the WTA rankings.
In the final ranking of the highest paid athletes, she occupies the twenty-ninth place, surpassed by the Big 3 of men’s tennis: Roger Federer (first), Novak Đokovic (23rd) and Rafael Nadal (27th). Photo credit: Herald Sun
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