Naomi Osaka is known for serving jaw-dropping Grand Slam looks – but she took it to another level with a jellyfish-inspired outfit which made waves on day three of the Australian Open.<\/p>\n
The four-time Grand Slam champion made a statement entrance on Rod Laver Arena – before her first-round match against Antonia Ruzic – with an outfit she dedicated to her daughter Shai.<\/p>\n
“It is the most spectacular and breathtaking entrance to a Grand Slam first round that I have ever seen,” tennis correspondent Russell Fuller said on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Australian Open Daily podcast.<\/p>\n
The Japanese 16th seed, a two-time Australian Open champion, held off Croatia’s Ruzic in a deciding set to win 6-3 3-6 6-4 and progress to the second round.<\/p>\n
Osaka walked on to court wearing an ocean blue tie-dye tracksuit jacket with white wide-leg bottoms – both adorned with ruffles.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old revealed her outfit was originally inspired by a jellyfish, which she saw in a book while reading to her two-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n
“Nike let me design this one,” she said. “I’m so grateful I get to be able to do the things that I love. It’s really beautiful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka is known for serving jaw-dropping Grand Slam looks – but she took it to another level…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-419077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}