Yastremska, the female tennis rapper who triumphs on YouTube

Dressed in black leather and surrounded by sports cars with their initials on the license plate. So has promoted his latest release with an image on his Instagram account Dayana Yastremska, the female tennis rapper.

The Ukrainian, who at 20 is ranked 25 in the WTA ranking, a circuit in which she has won three tournaments (Hua Hin and Strasbourg in 2019 and Hong Kong in 2018), moves freely on the track and in the study. His first song, 'Thousands of Me', in which he recounts the tortuous recovery from a failed sentimental relationship, already accumulates more than 400,000 visits on YouTube.

Soon he will release 'Favorite Track', his second single, in which he explores dance-pop, again with his own lyrics. Although he manages quite respectable figures for the music industry, he downplays his great passion outside of tennis: “To be honest, when I released 'Thousands of me' I thought that he would not record anything else, it was very strange for me … But after a while and of good emotions the fire entered me and I decided that there would be a new song “, she is sincere.

Your goal is not to become a star, just to enjoy: “I don't intend to become a cool artist, I just like to sing, I like this atmosphere. It is much easier for me to be on the track than in the studio, near the microphone, which is a lot of stress for me. “

Controversy

The reactions of his more than 75,000 Instagram followers to the launch have been generally positive. But Yastremska, who is coached by Sascha Bajin, who has already worked with Osaka and Mladenovic, has not always had the support of fans. He recently set the networks on fire with a photo showing half of his body in dark tones and the other half in lighter tones. He published it to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but it had the opposite effect and ended up erasing it and lamenting the “misunderstanding”.