The 2024 Hologic WTA Tour season was full of historic victories, big breakthroughs and memorable moments. But some of the important stories weren’t written between the lines: Today, we’re looking back at some of our favorite viral social media moments of the season.
From Jelena Ostapenko’s Grammy Award-winning super fan and Team USA’s star-studded selfie tour at the Paris Olympics, to the candor of Caroline Garcia and Naomi Osaka, here are some posts that got the tour talking over the last year.
Sit back, log on and enjoy.
Lil Wayne is Jelena Ostapenko’s biggest fan
It’s no secret that the stars of the Hologic WTA Tour have equally-famous fans, with A-listers including Taylor Swift, Zendaya and Tom Cruise all attending tournaments in the last year. But the most surprising celebrity crossover was between Jelena Ostapenko and the rapper Lil Wayne, who expressed his affinity for the Latvian multiple times in 2024.
Ostapenko first revealed her fandom for the man they call Weezy (who has famously been a tennis fan in his own right for decades) in an interview with Tennis Channel in the spring, where she said she enjoyed the five-time Grammy winner’s cameo appearance at a Drake concert she attended.
Months later, he responded, thanking Ostapenko for the “luv” by reposting the aforementioned interview to his Instagram story, and continued to follow the 2017 Roland Garros winner’s results throughout the year. That included several posts on X, formerly Twitter, by the artist — whose legal name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. — and even a direct message to Ostapenko where he showed his appreciation to her directly.
The famously-hard to impress Ostapenko was, admittedly, star struck — even if Carter ultimately wasn’t able to take her up on the offer to cheer her on in person at the US Open.
“He has like 19 million followers on Instagram, and when I saw this for the first time I was like ‘Wow, he saw it and he’s aware of it.’ It’s unbelievable,” Ostapenko said at Wimbledon.
“He also sent me a message saying that he’s a big fan of me as well. So for me, that was like … I was staring at my phone. I stopped and I was staring at my phone for like five minutes. I couldn’t believe Lil Wayne texted me. I mean, it’s amazing.”
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