Naomi Osaka to give up US citizenship to play for Japan in 2020 Olympics
October 10, 2019 at 10:39 AM EDT
Tennis phenom Naomi Osaka is saying goodbye to the United States and hello to Japan. The 21-year-old, who was born in Japan to a Haitian father and Japanese mother but raised in the United States, has started the process to relinquish her U.S. citizenship so she can play for Japan in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.