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First sunflowers, now sakura: Naomi Osaka's bouquet of flower-inspired Grand Slam outfits during the 2025 season is fully in bloom.

Osaka revealed the inspiration for, at least, the sneaker she'll wear at Roland Garros next week, with the latest custom colorway of her signature Nike GP Challenge 1s inspired by cherry blossoms.

"Spring is sakura season," Osaka wrote in unveiling the shoe on social media. "The girlies are gonna love this one."

In a subsequent story post to Instagram, the former world No. 1 confirmed that she is one of those "girlies."

“I love these shoes so much," she added, "they’re so adorable.”

Nike, on its website, highlighted that the shoe features the four shades of soft pink, titled Pink Foam, Pale Pink, Hyper Pink and Polarized Pink. The shoe will retail for $170 when it officially releases.

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The drop comes after Osaka teased last month that she has aspirations of "treating every Grand Slam like the Met Gala" when it comes to her on-court lookbook. Dressed by Nike since switching over from Adidas in the spring of 2019, the four-time Grand Slam champion has been known for head-turning 'fits that have drawn on thematic influences from her family, heritage and outside interests, and she previously confirmed during January's Australian Open that she'll wear a flower-themed shoe at every Grand Slam tournament this season.

At the "Happy Slam," Osaka fittingly accessorized her black, white and gray ensemble with sunflower accents, including stencils of the flower on her shoes and clips in her hair.

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And while her full outfit for Paris will likely only be revealed in full when she takes the court in a blockbuster first-round match against No. 10 seed Paula Badosa, Osaka did feed fans some "kinda fire" apparel with the latest installment of her personal Nike collection, which dropped a day after she debuted her Paris sneaker.

"You don't have to take my word for it but seeing is believing," she wrote of the drop, which includes an oversized bone-hued jacket with "subtle crisscross details [that] signal her tennis roots, and gold finishes nod to her love for fine jewelry;" a knit dress in bone and black with a "lock detail on the zipper pull [that] references the key she received from her father's Haitian hometown;" and two new caps and skirts.