Japanese and world tennis star Naomi Osaka has been sported wearing Kente head gear after wining her latest Grand slam the U.S Open.

Kente is a Ghanaian textile, made of handwoven cloth strips of silk and cotton.

The colorful fabric was worn historically by royalty among ethnic groups including the Ashanti, the Akyem, and the Fante.

The three-time Grand Slam winner is spotted in a pictures shared by the New York times taken when she won the U.S Open title when she defeated Victoria Azarenka.

Osaka, the world's highest-paid female athlete, has been very vocal about brutalities and killings against black persons in the USA.


Osaka, 23, was born to a Japanese mother and a Haitian father in the city with which she shares her surname in western Japan. The family moved to New York when she was three years old.