Iga Swiatek Shares Image With Naomi Osaka’s Cutout, the Japanese Star Responds
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While their rivalry on court is budding, Naomi Osaka and Iga Swiatek are also the best of friends when they are not going for each other’s throats (no, not literally) in the competitive arena. They keep up socially as well as on social media, often engaging in harmless banters.
In the latest illustration of their chumminess off court, the reigning French Open champion shared a picture of herself in a press room at Madrid, beaming at a larger-than-life cutout of the Japanese tennis star in the background.
The Pole has reached the Spanish capital, where she will launch her claycourt campaign at the Mutua Madrid Open.
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Greeted with the Osaka cutout in the press room, she saw the funny side and shared an image of herself with it, tagging the reigning Australian Open champion and drawing her into a ROFL-ing exchange.
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Swiatek shared the image of herself smiling at the Osaka cutout, which was from her winning moment at the Australian Open, on her Twitter and Instagram handles and tagged with a message saying, “How’s your day going @naomiosaka?”
To her Insta post, the Japanese World No.2 replied, “lol I can’t with you (emojis)”.
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The WTA, too, reacted to the adorable post with two love-eyed emojis.
😅How's your day going @naomiosaka? pic.twitter.com/gerLHBwxIG
— Iga Świątek (@iga_swiatek) April 28, 2021
On Twitter, the reigning US Open champion responded, wondering why the organizers had left a cutout of herself “for no reason”.
“Lol did they just have that in the press room for no reason (emojis)?” Osaka wrote to Swiatek’s post.
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One user commented that the Pole probably requested the cutout to be placed there so she could pull Osaka’s leg.
The two young guns have only met each other once on a tennis court, the 2019 Rogers Cup, with the Japanese winning in straight sets.
Despite all the camaraderie off court, one suspects that Swiatek will have memories of that defeat and will be nursing a quiet desire to get even the next time they cross paths on a tennis court.
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