Naomi Osaka said she switched from eating Japanese to Greek food the day before matches and now thinks it's a good omen
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Naomi Osaka beat Serena Williams to advance to the Australian Open final.
After the match, Osaka said she randomly switched from eating Japanese food the day before matches to eating Greek food.
Osaka said after the switch, Stefanos Tsitsipas, who is Greek, beat Rafa Nadal in the men's semifinal, leading Osaka to believe it was a good omen.
Naomi Osaka made a small switch to her routine that may have helped her land in the Australian Open final: she started eating Greek food.
Osaka defeated Serena Williams in straight sets in the semifinal on Thursday to advance to the final. In a post-match interview, Osaka joked that a switch from Japanese food to Greek, followed by Stefanos Tsitsipas' comeback win over Rafa Nadal in the men's semifinal, must have been a good omen.
"It's super weird, I have this story," Osaka said. "Last night - well, for the past three weeks I've been eating Japanese food on the day before my match. And yesterday, I decided to eat Greek food.
"So, then, I went to sleep and I woke up, and [Tsitsipas] had beat Nadal, so I'm like, 'Oh, maybe this is a sign. Maybe I should keep eating Greek food.'"
Osaka's comments drew laughs from the Australian Open crowd.
As the interviewer noted, Osaka was in the right Australian city to eat Greek food - Melbourne has a large Greek population.
Tsitsipas, who is Greek, defeated Nadal in five sets on Monday, coming back from a two-set deficit.
Tsitsipas saw the quote and responded on Twitter with emojis.
Osaka is on the verge of her third career major - any change in food routines at this stage might be risky.
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