Naomi Osaka made waves at Wimbledon this week with her “Kill Bill”-inspired kimono, an homage to her Japanese culture and Lucy Liu’s character in the Quentin Tarantino-directed martial arts movie.<\/p>\n
Following her 6-1, 7-6 (9) win over McCartney Kessler on Wednesday at Wimbledon, World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka was asked if there are any movie characters that inspire her, and might inspire future outfits.<\/p>\n
“‘Rocky,’ maybe that,” she said of the iconic Sylvester Stallone franchise about a down-on-his-luck boxer who perseveres to become champion. “But I don’t know how I would do my outfit, if this is my inspiration. Going [to] the match with boxing gloves or something, that would be tricky.”<\/p>\n
The 24-time WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz champion added that she has a varied taste in films, spanning genres.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many movies that really inspire me,” she said. “It can be comedy, it can be [a] love story. You get like one little phrase that really inspires you. I don’t know if I will ever try to get inspired by the movie and create some outfit.<\/p>\n
“I’ll have to really think a lot, because there’s probably so many great movies that you can get inspiration from. For now I’ll say Rocky. Maybe I have to think a bit deeply.”<\/p>\n
Another film that really resonated with her, she said, was the new Netflix documentary Rafa, about 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘The only thing you can control is your focus and motivation,'” Sabalenka said. “It really [stuck] deep inside of me. Sometimes now, during the matches whenever things are going wrong, I’m like, ‘The only thing you can control is focus and motivation.’ That was very strong.”<\/p>\n
A three-time semifinalist at Wimbledon, Sabalenka has yet to drop a set through her first two matches, though she was tested in the second set against Kessler, coming from 5-2 down and narrowly taking the tiebreaker 11-9.<\/p>\n
Sabalenka will play Jelena Ostapenko in the third round. Sabalenka has won three of their four career meetings, though Ostapenko won their most recent match, last year in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka made waves at Wimbledon this week with her “Kill Bill”-inspired kimono, an homage to her Japanese…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-520461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}