Drake leaves Jelena Ostapenko cold, Lil Wayne brings the vibe
Jelena Ostapenko has lifted the lid just a little on her taste in music as she revealed that Drake’s performance at the Miami Open left her unimpressed.
Drake’s strongest connection to sport probably comes in the form of his infamous gambling curse. If the Canadian rapper has money on you to win there is every chance that you are going down.
However, Ostapenko says that the concert wasn’t a dead loss as she really enjoyed the performance of Lil Wayne.
“I think it was nice but honestly the part of the concert where it was Lil Wayne, I liked way better. I don’t know I felt his vibe and music was so nice,” Ostapenko said in a chat with Prakash Amritraj at the Tennis Channel desk in the Caja Magica.
“When there was Drake, I was just standing, I was not dancing much, and when Lil Wayne came out, I was like dancing every single song even I didn’t know them. After the concert, I started to listen to a lot of Lil Wayne’s songs.”
Ostapenko also revealed that she enjoys the music of American rapper 50 Cent.
“50 Cent, I like 50 Cent yeah too,” she told Amritraj.
“There was a concert last year in Riga but I wasn’t there so I was really sad that I couldn’t go. Hopefully, he will come soon or maybe I’ll be in some city where he will have a concert,” she added.
Ostapenko started her Madrid Open campaign with a win over home hope Jessica Bouzas Maneiro that eased her into the competition.
She has set out her stall to be more aggressive this season and it will be interesting to see how she folds that strategy into her game on clay.
“I felt like last few years the game was kind of there, but not very consistent. Maybe like sometimes,” Ostapenko said.
“Now I’m just trying to play little bit maybe more aggressive. It sounds funny, but in deciding moments I feel like it is what I was not doing the right way last few years. I feel like now I’m doing it better.
” I think it’s more mental because I could always, like, be aggressive and hit the ball hard. Sometimes I felt like, even it sounds funny, I was trying to play for sure in deciding moments, maybe make an opponent to miss the ball. That’s not really my game.
“Even if I miss a few balls here and there, I feel like I need to stick to my aggressive game and do what I have to do.”