When Badosa was requested to inform the story in query after her first-round win at Wimbledon, issues took a flip. “Well, I was injured in Australia. I watched his match, the final. Of course I had jet lag because I was in Spain. I decided to watch that match,” she began, referencing Tsitsipas’ remaining defeat to Novak Djokovic in Melbourne.

“Surprising, because I never dream about tennis players, but I dreamt about him that night, that we were both winning Australian Open.” The world No 33 then laughed and added: “Then it was like we were having a very romantic moment, but I'm not going to explain. I'm just going to leave it there.”

Whatever the true content material of Badosa’s dream was, it served as one thing of a premonition. The pair began chatting when Tsitsipas congratulated her on beating Ons Jabeur on the Italian Open in May and the remaining is historical past.