Drake, Serena Williams
Cole Bursto/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Roc NationNearly 10 years after Serena Williams‘Romance rumored with DRETATennis Pro turned his head – and turned his attention to their claimed relationship – scattering the rapper during the show of the 2025 Super Bowl.
Williams, 43, raised her eyebrows on Sunday, February 9, when she jumped into a tomb as part of the first part of Kendrick Lamar. While her Cameo was surprising, the fact that she joined the musician for “No Like US”, a DES track directed at Drake, 38, was even more shocking.
To understand why, The weekly is taking it all the way to the summer of 2015 – and breaking the story listed between Williams and Drake.
Drake became a match in the Williams tennis matches that summer, starting in England during Wimbledon, from June to early July.
Serena Williams shocked the audience when she made a surprise at showing half the Super Bowl 2025 with Kendrick Lamar. “Let’s go to the first part of the Super Bowl ??! Died a little! “Williams, 43, wrote via X Sunday, February 9, along with a video of her dance while swinging her performance dress, which included a blue pleated (…)
Degrassi: Next generation Alum was observed sitting next to Serena’s sister, Venus WilliamsDuring her quarter -final victory over Victoria Azarenka in July 2015, according to the reporter Ben Rothenberg through crackling.
After her semifinal victory over Maria SharapovaOne reporter asked Serena if Drake was “lucky mascot”, according to Associate presswho reported that Drake was a participant in the press conference and laughed before covering his face.
Serena, meanwhile, is said to say to the press, “We’ve been friends, like many years. Like the family.”
Although they played Coy for their connection, Drake was part of the Serena players box when she won her sixth Wimbledon title later that month. He continued to appear on her tours, appearing on Toronto’s Rogers Cup in August 2015.
This was not until Drake attended the Ohio Women’s Tennis Association tour that August that fans began to speculate that they could be more than friends. Drake and Serena were noticed kissing in a local restaurant after the event, which sparked rumors of romance.
Edward Bertelot/Getty Images Venus Williams is proving that she is her sister’s number 1 fan after Serena Williams made a sudden appearance in the show of half the Super Bowl 2025. “Lil Sis killing her,” wrote Venus, 44 , through her Instagram story on Monday, February 10, reposting Serena’s video from the show. Venus also commented on Sunday, February (…) of Serena (…)
Serena, for her part, had already met her husband now, Alexis OHANIANIn May 2015 while they were staying in the same hotel in Rome.
While Serena’s romance with Ohranian, now 41, continued to grow out of attention, her status with Drake remained a conversation topic.
In fact, when Serena lost her offer to Grand Slam in September 2015, the Internet blamed Drake. (Drake was attending when Serena played in the US Open and lost, stopping her from a big clash.)
“I blame Drake for this,” wrote one user through X at the time. A second user has tweed, “Drake Jinxed Serena, Man”.
Next month, Serena’s representative denied that she and Drake were romantically involved. “They’re just long friends,” the representative said People In October 2015.
Serena calmed the rumors in December 2015 when she brought Ohranian as a plus of her to accept the 2015 Illustrated Sportsperson Award for 2015.
The tennis legend was engaged to Ohranian in December 2016 and tied the knot to New Orleans in November 2017. Coupleifi divides two daughters, Alexis Olympia and Adira.
While Drake became a father himself in October 2017 when he welcomed his son Adonis with the former Sophie brussauxHis rumored feelings for Serena have remained a theme in his music.
In his 2022 song “Middle of the Ocean”, Drake struck Ohranian relations with Serena. “Sidebar, Serena, your husband a group / He claims we don’t have a problem, but, no, Boo, it’s like you come to sushi,” he withdrew.
Gregory Shamus/Getty Images Kendrick Lamar brought his now the winner of Drake’s Grammy on the largest imaginable scene in the show of half the Super 2025 on the Superdome Caesars in New Orleans. After months of speculation about his list, Lamar, 37, included “not like us” in his performance, which means that more than 73,000 fans arrived at (…)
Ohranian crashed back into the texts through X, writing in November 2022, “The reason I stay winning is because I am ruthless to be the best absolute in everything I do – including being the best group for woman and my daughter. ”
Reddit’s founder added: “At @serenawilliams I found a partner I knew I would never overcome, who would always motivate me to be bigger.”
Nearly two years later, Drake brought his rumored and Serena again in the spotlight when his 100 archival videos of 100 concerts captured footage about his 2016 hit “Too Good”.
Drake named Serena while talking to his mother about the song, telling her in the video returned, “I’m heavy in some knots, but that has more to do with me and Serena.”
“I gather!” his mum, Sandi GrahamHe said in the clip which was published at 100 concerts in August 2024.
In the song, Drake sings about a unilateral romance, which he hinted at the situation between him and Serena. “Funny funny because when I do songs for women, I also do songs for them,” the rapper said at the time. “So I know what kind of song to do. If I’m going to talk about them, at least I’ll make them justice to make them a song they will like.”
Drake claimed, “I know the Serena very well, and I know she will hear her loud and clear, but not to hate me because she is with an easy heart.”
Graham then asked Drake, “And she is looking at someone else?” Implying that she knew about their rumored romance. “I don’t know, Mom,” Drake confessed.
Flash ahead to February, when Serena seemed to retire to the Drake joints over the years as she was passing by Lamar in the Super Bowl. (Lamar and Drake have been in a constant dispute since 2013.)
“Let’s go to the first part of the Super Bowl ??! Died a little! “Serena wrote through the X after she got the field to dance in” not like us “.
The song itself is related to Drake and Serena, as Lamar tells his Nemeza on the right track (which is widely thought to be Drake) that he “better not speak in Serena”.
Serena previously commented on Lamari’s song while waiting for ESSSSE Awards in July 2024. “If I learned anything this year, is that none of us, not one of us, not even me, should ever choose a war with Kendrick Lamar, Serena was overwhelmed at the time. Next time Drake sits in Courtside in a Raptors game, they will go to Forrest Gump him. Places taken ”.
