WATCH: Osaka throws "ace" first pitch at Dodgers' Japan Night

Being a top tennis player comes with all kinds of pressure. There's the pressure of taking on Serena Williams in a US Open final. There's the pressure of trying to back that title up by winning in Melbourne. And there's the pressure of handling the lackluster results that inevitably come.

But none of that is adequate preparation for performing in a large stadium at sport you don't even play.

"When I tell you I was nervous," Naomi Osaka wrote of her experience throwing the ceremonial first pitch at the Los Angeles Dodgers' Japan Night on Wednesday.

Like in her two Grand Slam finals, though, Osaka delivered, sending what the P.A. announcer called "an ace" to Dodgers pitcher Kenta Maeda, who, also, was born in Osaka.

"I was just really hoping that I wasn't gonna end up on SportsCenter for, like, Top 10 Worst Fails," Osaka told the Dodgers afterward.

She also got a cool photo with other Japanese stars: Maeda, guitarist Miyavi (from Osaka, too) and the Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani.

The Angels went on to win that game, 3-2, completing a two-game sweep of the National League–leading Dodgers.

Osaka's lost her last two matches as well, both to Yulia Putintseva, and will certainly feel the pressure to return to form on her preferred hard courts ahead of her US Open title defense. But, hey, pressure is a privilege.