Naomi Osaka and Kei Nishikori are two of the most exciting players in the sport.
But when the Japanese stars joined fellow pro Miyu Kato for a group dinner in Madrid earlier this month, drowsiness was on the menu.
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The late Spanish suppertime combined with Osaka's early sleep schedule left her nearly dozing off during dinner.
"I want to feel like I'm friends with Kei. I'm not really sure if he thinks I'm his friend," Osaka told the media in Rome recalling the dinner. "He's a really, really nice guy. It really surprises me how nice he is.
"I had dinner with Kei and Miyu Kato. And basically, it was them trying to talk to me. And I'm just giving like the one-word replies. But, to be fair, okay, in Madrid, the dinner starts really late. And I'm an early sleeper, so I was like sleepy halfway through the dinner... I went with my physio, and she was like poking me. And she was like, Wake up!"
Osaka completed dinner without nap though she suggests the "embarrassing" experience may have influenced Nishikori's impression of her.
"Kei probably has like a really weird impression of me," Osaka said. "Kei's physio and my physio were like, We should go to dinner once. And it's probably never going to happen again. Because that was just so embarrassing."
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