Aucklanders, brace yourself: Anna-mania has begun.
McDonald's is a fairly routine place to grab a snack, but the customer in the red jumper seeking breakfast at the worldwide chain's Auckland Airport outlet this morning was anything but routine.
The young lady in dark glasses (a bit odd at breakfast, that) ordering her bacon and egg bagel got the same service as the other x-number of billion served.
But this girl packs a serve of her own - quite a handy one at that.
Anna Kournikova bounced into Auckland this morning, in a festive mood, joking with reporters as she went.
With a week to go until the start of the ASB Bank Classic, the Russian tennis superstar is here for a little practice and to acclimatise to the Auckland weather.
She won't have been too impressed with the weather today; it's a bleak day with grey cloud everywhere and persistent drizzle.
When conditions improve, she'll get the chance to hit up against the fortunate young Auckland man who's been 'conscripted' into being a human backboard for one of the sports world's media darlings.
Kournikova arrived in the company of her mother, Alla.
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