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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans are sour losers!! ALWAYS blame on someone or something!! She lost dumb a$$.[/quote]

You do realize that Osaka holds American citizenship and has lived in the US for 17 years, while only living in Japan for three years.

I get that she has chosen to play under the Japanese flag, but she is as American as anyone else who is a citizen. You can't take that away from her. 
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Mom is Japanese, her dad is Haitian [/quote]

So is then the new young hope of US tennis Frances Tiafoe not American? He plays for the US flag, and was born here but his parents are definitely not US born. Is that what makes the difference that he was born here? Osaka's father moved to US to attend New York University, then to Japan then back to US. I presume he got US citizenship down the road, just as his daughters had. The reason Naomi and her sister play for Japan is that Japan gave them funds for tennis. USTA did not.[/quote]

I don't get this last comment. Is it a problem that people are pointing out that Naomi Osaka is of Haitian and Japanese ancestry, holds both Japanese and US passports, and spent most of her life growing up in the US? I think it's kind of cool.

In terms of funding, I read that the dad decided to have them play as Japanese. When you say USTA did not fund them, are you saying that they tried to get funding from USTA but were turned down? How is it decided who gets funding and who does not?
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I do not have information on her exact case clearly, but generally USTA will take promising young tennis players, and pay for their training. Often they take them young, and most of them end up being a bust. In some articles it says they decided to play for Japan because there was more funding available. There is a long debate in tennis communities that USTA is constantly making the mistake of taking kids who are promising at a younger age and sticking with them. Sadly, very few of these kids ever amount to anything. USTA is criticized on focusing on younger kids, and not recognizing that often it is later on, in later teens that true competitors are found. By then some of these talented kids quit because they have no money for such an expensive sport. As for my comment, I was responding to the comment Naomi is not American, bcs mom is Japanese and Dad is Haitian. But, the fact is that she has US passport, and so she is American, but plays for Japan's flag. So, in terms of person she is American too, in terms of which country she represents she is Japanese. In fact, you could say she is a true citizen of the world, kid of three countries, but the one she grew up in is US. She doesn't speak Japanese, just understands it she said.[/quote]

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