{"id":57398,"date":"2019-01-28T01:57:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T01:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57398"},"modified":"2019-01-28T01:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T01:57:52","slug":"tennis-star-naomi-osaka-doesnt-like-attention-shes-about-to-get-a-ton-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57398","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Doesn\u2019t Like Attention. She\u2019s About to Get a Ton of It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5498898\/naomi-osaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Tennis Star Naomi Osaka Doesn\u2019t Like Attention. She\u2019s About to Get a Ton of It.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TIME<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmgregory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sean Gregory<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Writer<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/293884104\/SJa0Thl7_default\/index.html?videoId=5987556030001\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On a wet December morning in a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Florida<\/a> weight room, the 21-year-old who stunned <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serena_Williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serena Williams<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/US_Open_(tennis)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Open<\/a> is hard at work preparing to show that the biggest moment of her life was more than a fluke. As an arrow flashes on an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPad<\/a> in front of her, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naomi_Osaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naomi Osaka<\/a> darts in the direction it signals, pauses, then pivots when it sends her the other way, without missing a step. Her coach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/coaches\/sascha-bajin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sascha Bajin<\/a>, joins the drill but leaps the wrong way and almost lands on Osaka\u2019s ankle. Bajin feigns horror, prompting fellow pro tour player <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monica_Puig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monica Puig<\/a> to suggest Osaka give her coach a hug. \u201cShe gives hugs like no other,\u201d Bajin says, his sarcasm thicker than midsummer heat. \u201cI only hug people I like,\u201d Osaka parries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5498898\/naomi-osaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the affiliation, Osaka says she doesn\u2019t feel more attached to one part of her identity than to any other. \u201cI don\u2019t really know what feeling Japanese or Haitian or American is supposed to feel like,\u201d she says. \u201cI just feel like me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,20,842],"tags":[1793,22759,29330,28495,21030,7222,21018,19784,3521],"class_list":["post-57398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-japan","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-sascha-bajin","tag-sean-gregory","tag-serena-williams","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57398","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=57398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57400,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57398\/revisions\/57400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}