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PARIS — American tennis player Danielle Collins isn't just getting support from her own country at the Paris Olympics. Irish fans have adopted her as one of their own, too. Collins started to realize the extent of her new fanbase when she was warming up before her first-round victory over German opponent Laura Siegemund at Roland Garros. She says that "a group of people that were Irish and because of my last name Collins they came out to support me even though I'm American. Because my grandfather is Irish they wanted to support me. How cool is that?"
