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Tennis: Naomi Osaka to choose Japan for Tokyo Olympics english.kyodonews.net

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3 Naomi Osaka has begun the process to select Japanese citizenship in order to compete for Japan at next year's Tokyo Olympics, a source familiar with the matter confirmed Thursday.
Osaka, whose parents are from Japan and Haiti, is currently a dual citizen of Japan and the United States, where she grew up.
The winner of two Grand Slam events, the 2018 U.S. Open and this year's Australian Open, Osaka was ranked No.
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