Model, influencer and content creator Hannah Dal Sasso is without a doubt her own woman.

But she just so happens to be in a relationship with Australian tennis champ Thanasi Kokkinakis.

There was a buzz about the loved-up couple last year when they were spotted at the Formula 1 in Melbourne and also the Melbourne Cup.

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And together they certainly make for an eye-catching duo.

The jet-setting Dal Sasso is back on home soil and featured in last week’s Australian Fashion Week in Sydney.

And it was here she revealed she had a little bit of an issue with the term ‘WAG’ (which News Corp often uses in headlines when referring to the wife or the girlfriend of a sporting identity).

“I know in footy there are so many girlfriends and they get called WAGs, but in tennis there aren’t many and you never really see someone called that,’’ Dal Sasso told News Corp.

“I like having my own name and not being someone else’s partner.”

It was about 12 months ago when Kokkinakis made the surprising admission Dal Sasso was his “first girlfriend, probably ever”.

“(I’m a) late bloomer, I guess you could say, so I’m trying that, but that brings its challenges as well. But she has been great,” Kokkinakis said during the 2023 French Open.

Kokkinakis is again in Europe as he prepares for the French Open (which starts in a few days).

Last year he impressed in the tournament but succumbed to injury and 11th seed Karen Khachanov in the third round.

He was right in the match, too, but a chest muscle, which the South Australian badly injured in 2019, had flared and he ended up going down in a tie break in the fourth set.

Despite matching his best result at a major, Kokkinakis was dejected after falling on the wrong end of another thriller.

Now, Dal Sasso will watch from afar as Kokkinakis aims to go a little deeper into the tournament.

But she admitted there were challenges in their relationship

“We just had a nice month together and I already miss him – long distance is really hard,” she said.

“Thanasi is really dedicated to his tennis and he’s putting everything into it and I’m so proud of him.”

It has been reported that she will reunite Kokkinakis in the US when the tennis tour rolls into America.