“I know that, like, she really wanted to have the 24th Grand Slam, right? It’s on the commercials, it’s everywhere,” said Osaka, who in third grade produced a report on Williams as the person Osaka most wanted to be like. “Like, when I step onto the court, I feel like a different person, right? I’m just a tennis player playing another tennis player. But then when I hugged her at the net,” she said, pausing while her eyes welled up, “I felt like a little kid again.”

Source: Los Angeles Times September 09, 2018 02:51 UTC