Naomi Osaka Naomi Osaka is getting candid about the challenges of balancing motherhood and her tennis career since welcoming her daughter Shai. In a new interview with Hello! Magazine, the tennis star, 27, admitted that juggling everything can be “tough” at times. “My career requires me to travel for most of the year, which makes it tough when I have to be away from my daughter so frequently, but I’ve got such a great support system around,” she said in an interview published Monday. “It takes a village, and I truly couldn’t do it without mine.”She added: “They are there with me during the highs and lows.”