Adored tennis champion Naomi Osaka shared a few photos of herself on the cover of Glamour Magazine for its latest issue while revealing that she took the photos herself during quarantine for the Australia Open, which she went on to win.
Fun fact : I shot these by myself while quarantining for the Australian Open ???? pic.twitter.com/sWoky3PJ5B
— NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ (@naomiosaka) March 19, 2021
"Fun fact : I shot these by myself while quarantining for the Australian Open," she wrote on Twitter Friday morning.
The glamorous shots got a lot of love online from fans of the tennis star while also racking up thousands of likes in just a few hours.
— shaya silberstein (@shayasilbers1) March 19, 2021
You're a total game-changer. https://t.co/YrDpIeCkqn
pic.twitter.com/YNNpPprdVe— Ask.com (@AskDotCom) March 19, 2021
This giving me early 2000’s Alicia Keys vibes.
— Calderon-San (@CoronaNLimes) March 19, 2021
A great Tennis player and an amazing photographer is there anything this girl can't do ????
— Kairon Edwards (@KaironEdwards) March 19, 2021
You just be serving looks left and right. You'll killing the game. Keep at it!
— Okoye's Side Eye (@jrinrevision) March 19, 2021
The consensus for many was that she looked similar to Alicia Keys.
I’m getting Alicia Keys vibes pic.twitter.com/7x58ySikhS
— Donnell (@_eli_99) March 19, 2021
Is that Alicia keys? pic.twitter.com/o98MxOMSo2
— H. Junior (@daget23) March 19, 2021
The Haitian-Japanese tennis player has had a great 2021 so far, winning the Australian Open final after beating her idol and tennis legend Serena Williams in the semifinals, as Blavity previously reported.
Williams has lauded Osaka for taking over the tennis world even while losing a number of very close matches to her in recent years.
At just 23, she already has four grand slam championships to her name, vaulting her into rarified air within the tennis world.
As Blavity previously reported, she became a part-owner of the North Carolina Courage, a National Women’s Soccer League in January after winning 2020 Sports Illustrated Sportspersons of the Year for her social justice activism and Associated Press Athlete of The Year.
She made waves last year for wearing face masks with the names of Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, Ahmaud Arbery and many others killed by police or racist violence.
"[W]atching the police injustices like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake (to name just a few) in the summer broke my heart. I am proud of my U.S. Open victory, but more so that I got people talking about the real issues," Osaka wrote in an email interview last year.