A home video of a 10-year-old Naomi Osaka has come back to 'haunt' her — but it proves she’s always been a champion

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September 13, 2018 3:55 PM

Naomi Osaka won the US Open women's final on September 8 and has been thrust into the media spotlight ever since. Now, a home video of a 10-year-old Osaka has resurfaced and though she says she knew it would come back to 'haunt' her, it shows she's always been a champion.

Naomi Osaka has been thrust into the media spotlight having beaten Serena Williams at the 2018 US Open, becoming the first Japanese tennis player to ever win a Grand Slam title in tennis.

News of her victory has swept across the planet as she beat Williams in straight sets after the American received a hat-trick of violations for coaching, smashing her racket, and verbal abuse.

Within days, news emerged that she was set to sign the biggest sponsorship deal sports giant Adidas had ever agreed with a female athlete, potentially making her one of the highest-paid women in sports.

At the same time, she was invited on the "Today" show, and confessed to Ellen DeGeneres that she has a crush on Michael B. Jordan — the villain from the "Black Panther" movie. Clearly, she's on her way to becoming a household name.

With her name in the press, it was only a matter of time before home videos of her childhood emerged that would come back to "haunt" her — like the one below that shows her win two chopsticks competitions at the age of 10.

The competition involves two people sitting opposite each other at a table. The idea is to pick up small coffee beans with chopsticks and drop them, one by one, into a mug. The winner is the one who finishes first.

Osaka wins both times, showing she was perhaps always destined to be a champion.

"I always knew this would come back to haunt me," she said on Twitter. "I just never knew when."

Osaka tweeted the video, which you can watch below: