A nice gesture. Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka, whose father is Haitian, will offer all of the earnings she will receive during the Cincinnati tournament to victims of the earthquake in Haiti, she announced on Saturday.
“It really hurts me to see all the devastation in Haiti,” tweeted the tenniswoman. “I am getting ready to participate in a tournament this week and I will donate all my financial gains to the aid efforts in Haiti. I know that the blood of our ancestors is strong, we will move forward, ”added the 23-year-old player, world number two.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti this Saturday, killing several hundred people and reviving terrible memories of the great earthquake of 2010, in which 200,000 people died.
According to a report on Sunday, the earthquake left at least 304 dead and hundreds of people missing and injured. The material damage is also very important.
Second competition since his break
Naomi Osaka, born in Japan where her mother was from, has lived in the United States since the age of three. His father, Léonard François, is from Jacmel, in southwestern Haiti, near the epicenter of the earthquake on Saturday.
Osaka withdrew from Roland Garros in May after refusing to appear in front of the press to “preserve her sanity”, before withdrawing from Wimbledon and taking a break away from the courts. The Cincinnati tournament will be her second competition since, after the Tokyo Games where she carried the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony.
