Naomi Osaka wins at Wimbledon, then celebrates in a Haiti jersey

Naomi Osaka won her Wimbledon opener, then told the world exactly where her heart was, celebrating on Centre Court in a Haiti football jersey.

The four-time Grand Slam champion has never lacked a sense of occasion. She walked out in a kimono inspired by Kill Bill, the latest in a line of entrances that treat the sport’s biggest stages as stages, full stop. Then she played, and she won.

It was what came after the handshake that traveled around the world. Osaka pulled on the blue and red of Les Grenadiers, saluting Haiti’s historic World Cup run just days after the team’s farewell in Atlanta. Her father hails from Jacmel, and Osaka has embraced her Haitian roots throughout her career, but rarely this visibly, on grass this famous.

For a diaspora that spent June watching its team score World Cup goals for the first time in 52 years, the image landed like a gift: Haitian identity, worn with joy, at the very center of world sport, again.