Ōsaka Tamaki: Mom of Tennis Star Ōsaka Naomi on Life and Her Daughter’s Determination

The cover of Tamaki’s book Ton’eru no mukō e (The Other End of the Tunnel).

Ōsaka Tamaki (right) with husband Leonard Francois and four-month-old daughter Mari at their small import clothing shop in Osaka. (© Ōsaka Tamaki)

Three-year-old Naomi (right) practices with father Leonard at a public tennis court in New York shortly after the family moved to the city. (© Ōsaka Tamaki)

Sisters Mari (left) and Naomi show off their first-place trophies from a junior tennis regional event. (© Ōsaka Tamaki)

Ōsaka Naomi wears a mask in honor of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man murdered in a hate crime, following her third-round win at the US Open on September 4, 2020, to protest racial injustice. (© AFP/Jiji)

Tamaki (left) and husband Leonard pose with daughter Naomi in September 2019 after she won the Toray Pan Pacific Open, held in Osaka. (© Ōsaka Tamaki)