As she returns to the courts of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York for a shot at defending her U.S. Open title, Naomi Osaka is coming off a year in which she has greatly amplified her voice on social issues, having taken a stand against racism and opened up about her mental health struggles."Definitely in New York last year, the biggest goal for me was just to push that (racial justice) message across, and I feel like I did well there," said the 23-year-old Osaka, who was born in Japan to a Haitian father and a Japanese mother and raised in the United States, in remarks…READ FULL ARTICLE
