Naomi Osaka to donate prize cash to Haitian earthquake aid efforts

Naomi Osaka has pledged to donate her earnings from subsequent week’s Western & Southern Open to help earthquake aid efforts in Haiti, the Caribbean nation her father hails from.
The four-time Grand Slam champion introduced her pledge in response to the 7.2-magnitude quake that struck the impoverished nation on Saturday, killing not less than 304 folks and injuring lots of.
“Really hurts to see all the devastation that’s going on in Haiti, and I feel like we really can’t catch a break,” Osaka stated on Twitter.
“I’m about to play a tournament this week and I’ll give all the prize money to relief efforts for Haiti. I know our ancestors blood is strong we’ll keep rising.”
World quantity two Osaka, whose mom is Japanese and who performs below the Japanese flag, has used her platform to name consideration to the causes she cares about.
She wore masks eventually 12 months’s U.S. Open with the names of victims of police violence on them.
Osaka is seeded second on the event in Cincinnati, which runs from Aug. 14 to Aug. 22.