{"id":45299,"date":"2016-01-23T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45299"},"modified":"2016-01-23T03:22:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T03:22:42","slug":"another-win-for-a-player-getting-in-touch-with-her-japanese-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45299","title":{"rendered":"Another Win for a Player Getting in Touch With Her Japanese Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another Win for a Player Getting in Touch With Her Japanese Roots<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-01-21<\/p>\n

Ben Rothenberg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nNaomi Osaka<\/a> signed autographs after her 6-4, 6-4 victory over 18th-seeded Elina Svitolina <\/a>at the Australian Open<\/a> on Thursday.
\nCredit Issei Kato<\/a>\/Reuters<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

MELBOURNE, Australia<\/a> \u2014 Naomi Osaka<\/a> (\u5927\u5742 \u306a\u304a\u307f<\/span><\/a>) liked to think she had a universal appeal to the crowd that watched her 6-4, 6-4 win over 18th-seeded Elina Svitolina<\/a> at the Australian Open<\/a> on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it\u2019s because they can\u2019t really pinpoint what I am,\u201d said Osaka, who will play the two-time champion Victoria Azarenka<\/a> in the third round. \u201cSo it\u2019s like anybody can cheer for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Osaka, 18, is coached in the United States by her Haitian-born father, Leonard Francois. She spends little time in her mother\u2019s homeland of Japan<\/a>, the country she represents in tennis, but received strong support from Japanese fans as she pulled off the upset on Show Court 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI always think that they\u2019re surprised that I\u2019m Japanese,\u201d she said. \u201cSo like the fact that there was like Japanese flags and stuff, it was like really touching.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another Win for a Player Getting in Touch With Her Japanese Roots The New York Times 2016-01-21 Ben Rothenberg Naomi Osaka signed autographs after her 6-4, 6-4 victory over 18th-seeded Elina Svitolina at the Australian Open on Thursday. Credit Issei Kato\/Reuters MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Naomi Osaka (\u5927\u5742 \u306a\u304a\u307f) liked to think she had a universal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8],"tags":[22758,22759,2640,7222,21018,2327,22760],"class_list":["post-45299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","tag-ben-rothenberg","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-new-york-times","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-22760"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45301,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45299\/revisions\/45301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}