Osaka, who is half-Haitian and half-Japanese, has kept busy since her victory. She appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres show Wednesday to discuss her match with Serena Williams, her celebrity crush in Michael B. Jordan, and Ellen gifted the tennis phenom with a new flat-screen TV.
naomi osaka freaking out about ellen trying to set her up with michael b jordan is the cutest thing i've ever seen we must protect her pic.twitter.com/MzoBru9eSA
— ellie 🪐 (@eleanorbate) September 12, 2018
Osaka also explained to Ellen what her childhood idol, Serena Williams, whispered in her ear during the trophy ceremony, via Huffington Post:
“She said that she was proud of me and that I should know that the crowd wasn’t booing at me,” Osaka told DeGeneres. “At the time, I did … think that they were booing at me. I couldn’t tell what was going on, because it was just so loud in there. It was a little bit stressful.”
Congratulations to Osaka on this monumental deal with Adidas.