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Osaka, who was noticeably teary during the ceremony and at one point pulled her visor down over her eyes, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday and cleared up exactly what her idol said to her.

“She said that she was proud of me and that I should know that the crowd wasn’t booing at me,” Osaka told DeGeneres of the emotional moment between rivals.

“At the time, I did … think that they were booing at me. I couldn’t tell what was going on, because it was just so loud in there. It was a little bit stressful.”

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What Serena Williams whispered to Naomi Osaka on podium

I’m crying.