Naomi Osaka shared a heartwarming second with a younger lady on the US Open.© US Open/Instagram
Defending US Open champion Naomi Osaka began her title defence with a straight units win over Czech Republic’s Marie Bouzkova on Monday. The Japanese tennis star gained the match 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the second spherical of the event. After the win, Osaka shared a heartwarming second with a younger fan. Osaka gifted an Olympic pin to a younger lady who was cheering the 23-year-old from the stands. Osaka’s gesture earned her loads of reward on social media.
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“I simply heard her (younger fan) after I was enjoying my match and she or he was so cute. So, um… thanks for cheering me on and on. However yeah, within the Olympics, we received little pins that we had been purported to cross round to different gamers like buying and selling pins. And I wasn’t there (on the Olympics) for a very long time so I’ve a pair in my bag left over. I assumed it could be like a pleasant little reminiscence,” Osaka mentioned.
Followers on Twitter hailed Osaka’s “human spirit”.
“That is what’s up simply love @naomiosaka wonderful human spirit,” a fan wrote on Twitter.
That is what’s up simply love @naomiosaka wonderful human spirit
— Dre Vin Sanders (@utilizemind2) August 31, 2021
So candy this second ! Brava @naomiosaka
— YAYALI (@LlaaniiMaan) August 31, 2021
Naomi is such a sweetheart!
— Prescilla Brown (@brown_prescilla) August 31, 2021
Shes a category act
— Picasso Riveras (@RiverasPicasso) August 31, 2021
The 23-year-old Japanese star might change into the primary back-to-back US Open girls’s champion since Serena Williams, out this 12 months with a torn hamstring, gained her third in a row in 2014.
Final 12 months the US Open was held behind closed doorways as a consequence of coronavirus pandemic however with followers allowed for this 12 months’s event, Naomi Osaka mentioned the “power is unmatched”.
“It felt fairly lonely for me,” she mentioned.
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“So I am fairly glad to see little youngsters within the viewers and grown ups too. The power right here is unmatched,” she mentioned within the put up match interview.
(With AFP inputs)
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