According to report reaching oyogist.com, Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has reacted to winning 2021 Laurues World Sportswoman of the year.
Japan’s Osaka won her second U.S. Open title last year.
Laureus hailed Osaka’s “powerful statement” at the U.S. Open to support the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign as she highlighted racial injustice by wearing different face masks at her matches bearing the names of African Americans who died in recent years.
Reacting to the award via her verified twitter handle, she wrote:
“crazy times, we really won a laureus.”
